Despair Quotes
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.
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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.
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Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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We’re killing ourselves, both on purpose and accidentally. These aren’t deaths from famine, or poverty, or war. We’re literally dying of despair.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.
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People become artists out of despair.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.
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Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
