Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Stills

• The path to joy leads through despair.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Despair

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Night
  • Always
  • Woman

• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Courage
  • Easy
  • Challenges

• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Stills
  • Despair
  • Nerves

• Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Day
  • Fire
  • Year

• I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Kindness
  • Despair

• But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Video

• Teach hope to all, despair to none.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Teach
  • Despair

• And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

  

  Plato
  • Reputation
  • Self-respect
  • Victors

• War loves to seek its victims in the young.

  

  Sophocles
  • War
  • Loves
  • Victims

• Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Evil
  • Struggle
  • Modern

• For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Poetry
  • Revenge
  • Human being

• We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Enemy
  • Humans
  • Weak

• She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Despair
  • Acknowledge
  • Self-knowledge

• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Despair
  • Driven
  • Psychedelic

• We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Earth
  • Dog
  • Everyday

• A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Human
  • Window
  • Rooms

• Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Despair
  • Victims
  • Victors