Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[epenguin]

Aha, so the context is not uninfluential in constituting a considerable makes a difference.
Sylistically that app can help write like Orwell, Ian Fleming, Hemingway.
I think I and most of us can, at least write dry compressed scientific prose when needed.
I read a critique recently that said Orwell's stripped-down minimalism was itself very artificial, an affectation, like inverted snobbery, which rather spoilt him for me. And whatever was supposed to be most admirable I have to say that without being told to, the stylist I most enjoyed reading is Nabokov.

 

[Lisa!]

"The Secretary General of the UN has the easiest job in the world, he just needs to deplore."

 

[OmCheeto]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

 

[Psinter]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

Great! But on the other side of the coin:

People always manage to fall into panic when a terrible outcome is put into logical words and explained to them.

I lived that with my own skin and I did fall into panic like an idiot. I was totally fooled.

 

[Rubidium_71]

"I don't want to believe, I want to know." - Carl Sagan

"Ouch! I've been shot!" - JFK ;)

 

[Psinter]

Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

Even if it's fiction I can relate. After being thrown into an abyss of despair I desperately struggled to get out of it. Accepting "help" (note the quotes) from people who were clearly the very enemies who threw me into the abyss, but I was in so much despair that I was blind to it.