Nondespairing Quotes & Sayings

I spent my life making fashion an art form. — Charles James

The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty. — David Mitchell

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. — Black Elk

Right, 'the Queen of Hearts.' Sounds to me like you're just one bitch in a whole pack of cards, baby. — Elle Lothlorien

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus

The preservation of Buddhism is preserving your own internal heart. If Tibetans became terrorists they might win back Tibet, but Buddhism would be destroyed by that attitude. — Rodger Kamenetz

Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance ... Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair ... An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness ... — Soren Kierkegaard

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play. — Dana Schutz