Despair Quotes
1642 quotes by 1105 authors
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over…
— Albert Camus
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
— Albert Camus
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
— Albert Camus
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
— Albert Camus
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
— Charlie Chaplin
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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
— Cesar Chavez
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From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with…
— Cesar Chavez
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels…
— Hillary Clinton
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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…
— Leonard Cohen
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger…
— Henri Nouwen
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If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road…
— Sun Tzu
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Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer…
— Ole Hallesby
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and…
— Elie Wiesel
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As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when…
— Ned Rorem
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I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not…
— Lee Iacocca
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness…
— William Osler
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