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Image of Bertrand Russell
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Alexis de Tocqueville
In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Starhawk
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
- Starhawk
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Image of William Shakespeare
Despair and die. The ghosts
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Stefan Molyneux
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
- Stefan Molyneux
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Image of Thomas Pynchon
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
- Thomas Pynchon
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Image of Tariq Ali
Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.
- Tariq Ali
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Image of John Calvin
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
- John Calvin
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Image of Andrew Solomon
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.
- Andrew Solomon
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Image of Andrew Solomon
Despair is part of love.
- Andrew Solomon
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Edmund Burke
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Lord Byron
I learned to love despair.
- Lord Byron
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Image of Luc de Clapiers
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
- Luc de Clapiers
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Image of Luc de Clapiers
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
- Luc de Clapiers
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Image of Warren Buffett
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.
- Warren Buffett
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Image of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Image of Marion Woodman
Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.
- Marion Woodman
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Image of John Clare
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair
- John Clare
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Image of Gillian Flynn
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
- Gillian Flynn
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Image of Lee Child
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need To Leave Now.
- Lee Child
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Image of Albert Camus
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
- Albert Camus
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Image of Sophie Swetchine
God has prohibited despair.
- Sophie Swetchine
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Image of Emile M. Cioran
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
- Emile M. Cioran
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Image of Edmund Burke
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of John Cleese
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
- John Cleese
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Image of Tim Kaine
Despair is a natural emotion.
- Tim Kaine
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Image of Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Image of Lord Byron
Despair and Genius are too oft connected
- Lord Byron
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Image of Winston Churchill
Never flinch, never weary, never despair.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
- Raymond Carver
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Image of Lenny Bruce
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
- Lenny Bruce
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Image of Sam Keen
There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.
- Sam Keen
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Image of Lenny Bruce
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair.
- Lenny Bruce
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Image of Kim Stanley
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
- Kim Stanley
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Image of William Cowper
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
- William Cowper
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Image of Sophocles
Despair often breeds disease.
- Sophocles
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Image of Norman Cousins
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.
- Norman Cousins
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Image of Mason Cooley
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Jamie Lee Curtis
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
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Image of Mason Cooley
Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of J. M. Coetzee
Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.
- J. M. Coetzee
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Image of Gangaji
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.
- Gangaji
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Image of Pierre Corneille
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
- Pierre Corneille
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Image of Janet Fitch
Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.
- Janet Fitch
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