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Despair Quotes by Albert Camus
- 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…
- He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
- There is no love of life without despair of life.
- To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that…
- God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
- ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
- To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On…
- Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,…
- There is not love of life without despair about life.
- Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
More Despair Quotes
- 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