Despair Quotes
1642 quotes by 1111 authors
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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
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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
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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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
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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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
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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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
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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
— Joseph Brodsky
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
— John Bunyan
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
— Edmund Burke
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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
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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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