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- He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. — Albert Camus
- Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of… — Frederick Buechner
- The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide
- Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
- He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not,… — Frederic Tudor
- I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive… — William James
- An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard
- As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy
- In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in… — Alexis de Tocqueville