Quotes with despair

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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Andrew Motion I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
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  • Robert Graves If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Bono If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michael Jackson In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
    Speech Oxford (2001)
    Michael Jackson
    American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Georges Bataille Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • William Congreve Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Robert Collier It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Blaise Pascal Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom Joy runs deeper than despair
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Elie Wiesel Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Leonard Cohen Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Life begins on the other side of despair.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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