Despair Quotes
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From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought to avoid armed conflict and not yield to despair in the search for universal peace. The nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea, and terrorists can only be overcome through international cooperation. We call upon Congressional leaders and those worldwide to join together to ensure the fulfillment of these long-overdue initiatives and the achievement of a safer future without nuclear weapons.
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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.
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It is important to see that my paintings are ultimately stimulating. They are not at all the kind of thing that inspires despair.
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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.
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
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Despair often breeds disease.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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This city runs fast, no one has time to sit with themselves, No time to look into our pain or see the same despair in everyone else
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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The path to joy leads through despair.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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In life when we feel we have reached a limit, that is when the true battle begins. Just when you despair and think it is impossible to go any further, will you become apathetic, or will you say it's not over and stand up with an unyielding spirit? The battle is decided by this single determination.
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And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
