Despair Quotes
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A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair
Niccolo Machiavelli
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In all things it is better to hope than to despair
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Edmund Burke
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Edmund Burke
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Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain
Diane de Pointiers
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope
Bernard Berenson
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
Alfred Victor Vigny
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven
John Donne
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Shaw
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Despair ruins some, presumption many
Benjamin Franklin
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .
Charles Dickens
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim
Graham Greene
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
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I`m not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
Hayao Miyazaki
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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Amber Valetta
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, `Studs, you`re an optimist.` I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what`s the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, `Studs, you`re an optimist.` I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what`s the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
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When you get to know me, I don`t despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
Avi Arad
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson
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When too many Americans don`t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Amy Colella
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What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredible feelings to sort through. Who is being too polite to say what? Who knows what? What did I do? Why? And most hauntingly, when will it happen again? Then,...
Arthur Vogel
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Alderman Dana McLendon
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Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
David Mallet
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Alderman Dana McLendon
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Amy Hooker
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind`s best thoughts, and my soul`s triumph over the powers of darkness.
Alexis Waggoner
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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Al Edwards
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