“The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

Peter Shaffer Equus

Equus (Longman, [1973] 1993), p. 11 <br class="br">Conferː "Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right." <br class="br">Interviewed by Mike Wood for the William Inge Center for the Arts. http://www.ingecenter.org/interviews/PeterShaffertext.htm

“Advancement of a society doesn’t come cheap, it’s the result of the interaction and collision between conservatism and futurism”

Ali Al-Wardi (1913–1995) Iraqi sociologist

“Giovanni hadn't lied. Sagra was a Baroque wonder, an unlikely and disturbing collision between Nature and Arts.”

Julien Gracq (1910–2007) French writer

“I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.”

Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p

“Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men’s desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”

Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835) German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the University of Berlin

Source: The Limits of State Action (1792), Ch. 8

“Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.”
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Alternate translation: Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. (translated by Zachariah Rush).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind, Line 12

“The attempt to place the white population under the domination of persons of color in the South has impaired, if not destroyed, the kindly relations that had previously existed between them: and mutual distrust has engendered a feeling of animosity which leading in some instances to collision and bloodshed, has prevented that cooperation between the two races so essential to the success of industrial enterprise in the Southern States.”

Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) American politician, 17th president of the United States (in office from 1865 to 1869)

Quote, Fourth State of the Union Address (1868)

“God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.”

Amélie Nothomb (1967) Belgian francophone writer

“The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!”

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