Reading Despair Quotes

#1. A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.

Nikita Dudani

#2. Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#3. In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

Rebecca McNutt

#5. My subconscious rolls her eyes at me in despair and goes back to reading her dog-eared copy of Jane Eyre.

E.L. James

#6. But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Robin McKinley

#7. THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there. Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate, And the Warder is Despair.

Emma Goldman

#8. The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels.

Anatole Broyard

#9. Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Carmen DeSousa

#10. Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Every book is a revolution. Books are our ticket out of boredom, despair, loneliness - but also ignorance.

Heidi Cullinan

#12. Sometimes I do readings and people can't stop laughing, but I'm reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It's despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

Alina Bronsky

#13. Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Paul Krugman

#14. Has anybody ever told you you're a remarkably cynical person?"
"I like to think of it as learning from experience.

Benedict Jacka

#15. It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.

Gail Caldwell

#16. I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

Michel Houellebecq

#18. But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
Are what they give us there:
For flowers have been known to heal
A common man's despair.

Oscar Wilde

#19. You don't see what I see.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost ... May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

Barack Obama