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What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.Collection: Despair
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.Collection: Despair
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.Collection: Despair
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.Collection: Despair
Despair ruins some, presumption many.Collection: Despair
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.Collection: Despair
One should never despair too soon.Collection: Despair
I have often been downcast, but never in despair.Collection: Despair
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.Collection: Despair
Despair swallows up cowardice.Collection: Despair
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.Collection: Despair
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.Collection: Despair
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?Collection: Despair
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despairCollection: Despair
He who despairs is wrong.Collection: Despair
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.Collection: Despair
I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?Collection: Despair
Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.Collection: Despair
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.Collection: Despair
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.Collection: Despair
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.Collection: Despair
Despair exists only when there is hope.Collection: Despair
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.Collection: Despair
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.Collection: Despair
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.Collection: Despair
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.Collection: Despair
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.Collection: Despair
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.Collection: Despair
The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.Collection: Despair
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .Collection: Despair
Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.Collection: Despair
Teach hope to all, despair to none.Collection: Despair
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.Collection: Despair
That is to say that despair does not seem to be in any way potentially to be productive.Collection: Despair
Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.Collection: Despair
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.Collection: Despair
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.Collection: Despair
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.Collection: Despair
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.Collection: Despair
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.Collection: Despair
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.Collection: Despair
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.Collection: Despair
Despair makes priests and friars.Collection: Despair
You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.Collection: Despair