A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
绝望
Despair
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
在希望中建造的道路比在绝望中建造的道路对旅行者来说更令人愉快,即使它们通向同一个目的地。
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
美是无法忍受的,它使我们绝望,让我们在一分钟内瞥见永恒,我们想把永恒延伸到整个时间。
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
当飞机接近迈阿密时,我有一种可怕的感觉,他快要死了。也许他是在告诉我他要走。我感到愤怒、恐慌、绝望和无助。
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
有时候,要想前进,你必须深入到自己个人绝望的深处,然后把自己拉回来。从那时起,无论发生什么,你都知道你能做到。
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
我喜欢的生活。我有时疯狂、绝望、痛苦、悲伤,但经历了这一切,我仍然十分肯定地知道,活着是一件伟大的事情。
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
我在想我的病人,他们最糟糕的时刻是当他们发现他们是坏运气或好运气的主人。当他们不能再责怪命运的时候,他们就绝望了。
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
任何活着时无法接受自己生活的人,都需要一只手来抵御他对命运的绝望……但用另一只手,他可以记下他所看到的废墟。
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
绝望是那些不了解罪恶的根源,看不到出路,也没有能力斗争的人的典型特征。现代工业无产阶级不属于这类阶级。
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy
耶和华阿,求你使我作你平安的器皿。哪里有仇恨,就让我播下爱的种子;哪里有伤害,哪里就宽恕;哪里有怀疑,哪里就有信仰;哪里有绝望,哪里就有希望;哪里有黑暗,哪里就有光明;哪里有悲伤,哪里就有快乐
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
在我的一生中,我学到了两个教训:第一,对于人类悲剧,没有足够的文学、心理或历史答案,只有道德答案。第二,正如绝望只能从别人那里得到一样,希望也只能从别人那里得到。
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
我们只有在绝望中才下定义,我们必须有一个公式……给人一种空虚的假象。
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
噢,愤怒!噢,绝望!哦,岁月,我的敌人!
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
当年轻人受到绝望的袭击时,他们应该让普遍的关心进入他们的生活。
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
绝望和挫折不会动摇我们的信念,即抵抗是解放的唯一途径。
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
我希望我能在你孤独的时候或在黑暗中向你展示你自己惊人的光芒。
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
儿子可以心平气和地忍受失去父亲,但失去遗产可能会使他绝望。