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Despair Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to…
- The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at…
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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
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I… — Henry David Thoreau
- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson
- Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom. — B.F. Skinner
- Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We… — May Sarton