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Despair Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
- From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends,…
- A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
- A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair
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
- 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