Vladimir Nabokov Despair Quotes

#1. Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

Michael Bassey

#2. In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes [ ... ], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion [ ... ] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

Lucy Walker

#4. In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

Alexander Rodchenko

#5. Your impulse to protect me conflicts with my need to protect my self-respect. Sorry. Besides. I have this vaguely uneasy feeling you're offering to protect me from you. That's not doing me a kindness
that's coercion.

Joe Hill

#6. I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice there are people who've come before that were open about it.

Brandon Flowers

#8. I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Brian Eno

#9. Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.

Thomas Szasz

#10. Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.

Bertrand Russell