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Despair Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
- On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
- We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- In all things it is better to hope than to despair
More Despair Quotes
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- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac
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- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
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- 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