Despair Quotes
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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
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People become artists out of despair.
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You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
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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
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We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
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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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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast 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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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.
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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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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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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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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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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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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to 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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Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
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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.
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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.
