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Despair Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them…
- It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
- All shall love me and despair.
- No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or…
- Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)
- And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen.…
- Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger…
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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