Despair Quotes
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
William Sloane Coffin
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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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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Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
Richard John Neuhaus
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For me--I hold no commerce with despair!
Charles G. Dawes
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Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
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A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
Ray Bradbury
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Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.
Neil L. Andersen
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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
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She has no idea who I am, not really. She's just someone who's noticed me because the video and she'll forget what she's said before the day is over.
Me? Not so much, but I go on, my legs shaking and a mix of anger and despair burning inside me.
Elizabeth Scott
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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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In the landscape of despair, everything was a miracle.
Eric Gamalinda
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Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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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No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
Trenton Lee Stewart
