Despair Quotes
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To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
Sarah Kane
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He who despairs is wrong.
Victor Hugo
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When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.
William Cowper
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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.
Cate Marvin
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
William James
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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
William Butler Yeats
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
Charles J. Chaput
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Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.
Ashraf Ghani
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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...
Alexandre Dumas
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
William Sloane Coffin
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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People become artists out of despair.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Albert Camus
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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.
Erica Jong
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.
Miranda Hart
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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.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.
Caroline Myss
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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.
Lois McMaster
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson