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Despair Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
- Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
- As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom,…
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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… — Karen Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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