Despair Quotes

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Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. — Emile Lahoud
It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address… — King Hussein I
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. — Raymond Williams
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task… — Arthur Henderson
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. — Isaac Rosenberg
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. — David Mallet
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were… — John Strachan
I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. — Terry Southern
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the… — Martin Sheen
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple… — Ernie Pyle
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and… — Andre Malraux
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the… — Andrew Jackson
I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and… — Robert Byrd
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife… — Karl Marlantes
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. — Marilynne Robinson
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable… — Sean Brady
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or… — Sharon Salzberg
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life. — Vikas Swarup
In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does… — Michel De Montaigne

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