Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Augusten Burroughs

This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.

Ali Hewson

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

Emmanuelle Beart

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Paulo Coelho

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

George H. W. Bush

Out of this despair is going to come a vibrant coast, ... I understand if you're saying to yourself, 'Well, it's hard for me to realize what George W. is saying because I've seen the rubble and I know what has happened to my neighbors.' But I'd like to come back down here in about two years and walk your streets and see how vital this part of the world is going to be.

Bertrand Russell

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

Chris Carlisle

I think that a great part of healing was I didn't sit and despair about 'woe is me. Why me? Why me?' I never had that time.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Saint Augustine

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

John Bercow

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Charles Spurgeon

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

C. S. Lewis

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Alain de Botton

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.