Despair Quotes
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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 is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
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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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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
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One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.
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When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.
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How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.
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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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Despair is part of love.
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Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
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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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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
