Despair

Acerca de Despair

Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López es un guitarrista, compositor, productor discográfico y cineasta puertorriqueño. Ha formado o tocado en varias bandas, incluyendo The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, Antemasque y Bosnian Rainbows. Fue el bajista de la banda de dub De Facto. También es conocido por su extensa carrera en solitario, que incluye más de cincuenta lanzamientos individuales, y se le describe con frecuencia como experimental, de vanguardia o progresivo. También ha colaborado con numerosos artistas, como Damo Suzuki, John Frusciante, Hans Zimmer, Buzz Osborne, Lydia Lunch, Zach Hill, El-P, Mon Laferte y Calle 13.

Resumen

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Notable quotes

“Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!”
— Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna (1852), Act I, scene ii.
“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.”
— Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter (1948), Book I, Part 1, Chapter 2.
“Despair is a kind of maturity too, or at least a last stage on one road to maturity.”
— , Theology and Sanity (1947), Ch. XV, iii. London: Sheed and Ward, 1964, p. 161.
“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”
— Richard Baxter, Saint's Rest, Chapter VI.
“No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (1820), Act I, line 24.
“Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope.”
— Bane, The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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