Despair Quotes

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate… — Antonin Artaud
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. — Mikhail Bakunin
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac
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;… — Georges Bataille
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more… — Emmanuelle Beart
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. — Joseph Addison
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. — Theodor Adorno
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own… — Aeschylus
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… — Bono
Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of… — Bono
Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair. — Joseph Brodsky
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. — John Bunyan
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. — Edmund Burke
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you:… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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