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Image of Leo Tolstoy
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Jacqueline Carey
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion
- Jacqueline Carey
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Joni Eareckson Tada
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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Image of Thomas Merton
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Image of George Whitefield
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.
- George Whitefield
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Image of Thomas Merton
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- Thomas Merton
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Image of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Despair the twin-born of devotion.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Image of Rajneesh
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Henry Miller
A world without hope, but no despair
- Henry Miller
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Image of Amos Bronson Alcott
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
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Image of Ravi Zacharias
For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Image of Jim Cymbala
I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.
- Jim Cymbala
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Image of Alan Moore
Never despair. Never surrender.
- Alan Moore
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Image of Paullina Simons
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
- Paullina Simons
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Image of Mary Oliver
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
- Mary Oliver
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Image of Susan Sontag
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Rodman Philbrick
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
- Rodman Philbrick
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Image of Philip Yancey
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
- Philip Yancey
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Image of Georges Bataille
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
- Georges Bataille
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Image of J. R. R. Tolkien
All shall love me and despair.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Image of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Image of Paul Valery
[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.
- Paul Valery
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Image of Gretel Ehrlich
Perhaps despair is the only human sin.
- Gretel Ehrlich
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Image of David Whyte
It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.
- David Whyte
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Image of Kate Morton
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
- Kate Morton
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Image of Emile Zola
I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
- Emile Zola
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Image of Catherynne M. Valente
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
We should impart our courage and not our despair.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Horace
Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
- Horace
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Guillermo del Toro
There are times when you are in despair, because in order not to betray who you are, you don't compromise, you don't make movies that would be very lucrative or prestigious or easily understood. And yet I stay attached to the most uncanny premises. It's never been easy.
- Guillermo del Toro
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Image of Jennifer Donnelly
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
- Jennifer Donnelly
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Image of Seneca the Younger
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Wendell Berry
To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
- Wendell Berry
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Image of William Blake
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
- William Blake
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Image of H. G. Wells
By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything
- H. G. Wells
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Image of Elie Wiesel
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of George Santayana
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
- George Santayana
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Image of Charles Baudelaire
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Image of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Image of Walker Percy
Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
- Walker Percy
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Image of Henri Nouwen
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of Ezra Pound
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
- Ezra Pound
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