"In idleness there is a perpetual despair." — Thomas Carlyle

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• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place… — Karen Armstrong
• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the… — Antonin Artaud
• Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I… — 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… — 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… — Georges Bataille
• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than… — Charles Baudelaire
• We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less… — 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

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