Quotes About Depair

#1. Enjoy the movie. I hear the guy gets the girl" I said, my tone bold and flirtatious.
"Which guy?" She laughed, playing along. I could hear her smile through the phone. It felt good to make her smile. Really good.
I paused before answering, "The one who deserves her.

Melissa Brown

#2. I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

Craig Johnson

#3. Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Swami Muktananda

#4. I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

Harmony Korine

#5. What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

Jennifer Egan

#6. When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.

Robert Haugen

#7. Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages..

Naomi Ragen

#8. He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.

Henry James

#9. What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?

David Foster Wallace

#10. I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

RJ Mitte

#11. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#12. God's more in control than we are. Obviously you still take all the precautions and safety measures inside your car.

Matt Kenseth

#13. We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the foreground. It must be written again, right from the beginning ...

Hermann Hesse