Despair Quotes
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How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
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I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
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When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.
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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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If sub specie aeternitatis from eternity's point of view there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.
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I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
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Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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On Malaysia: Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
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Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.
