Despairingly Quotes

#1. Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

George Mikes

#2. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

#3. The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.

Victor Hugo

#4. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

Anita Brookner

#5. Oh gosh. I mean, I love Saxon. Yes I do. *slaps forehead* *runs fingers despairingly through hair*

M..

#6. It's only those who love so strongly that grieve so despairingly.

Celia Mcmahon

#7. More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.

Georges Bernanos

#8. And the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. Saturday night. Buddy Dow, hired skipper of a big lunker owned by an insurance company in Atlanta, had enlisted two recruits and was despairingly in need of more.

John D. MacDonald

#10. Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#11. It is so strange to see two people you have known separately join together.

Veronica Roth

#12. At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future ... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

Matthieu Ricard

#13. I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

Adolf Hitler

#14. I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

Baratunde Thurston

#15. I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

Mark Kozelek

#16. I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time.

Dontrelle Willis

#17. We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig

#18. You're Either The Problem Or Solution To The Ills Of Humanity. Don't Be The Problem!

Timothy Pina

#19. Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Edith Wharton

#20. I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

Elizabeth Blackwell