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Dashed Quotes
On hopes broken, and the will to keep going.
Dashed quotes capture sudden upheaval, from a family forced to flee at a moment's notice to hopes that never quite survive reality. For more on resilience, see Accept quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are born with freedom and hope, but often that's dashed because of our color. But in school, I'd already been taught that no one could tell me that you can't do something because you're black.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020