Despair Quotes

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He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will… — Frederic Tudor
Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather… — Unknown Author
Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help… — Yana Toboso
We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all. — Miranda Hart
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that… — Amanda Burton
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a… — Wendell Berry
Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand… — Jo Baer
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer… — Oswald Chambers
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its… — Wyndham Lewis
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. — Thomas Hobbes
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with… — Rajneesh
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. — Tacitus
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as… — George Eliot
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result… — Mercy Otis Warren
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. — Amitav Ghosh
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. — Rohinton Mistry

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