Despair Quotes

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  Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Remember, Duty

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Moving, Absence

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Inspirational, Opinion, Appetite

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Disappointment, Tools, Use

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 03, 2014

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  It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

  Albert Camus

  Falling In Love, Existentialism, Feels

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Cycling, Race

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• Despair has its own calms.

  Bram Stoker

  Calm

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.50, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

  Cesar Chavez

  Strength, Struggle, Commitment

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.17, Texas A&M University Press

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Sad, Art, Pain

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• Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Beauty, Time

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

  Pierre Corneille

  Noble, Conquer, Valor

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• Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Giving, Mind, Ease

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• Despair often breeds disease.

  Sophocles

  Disease

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• From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

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• Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Confusion, Feelings, Transition

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Doubt, Galadriel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Depressing, Morning

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Black, Shadow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1861). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Complete in One Volume”, p.74

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• Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Honesty, Book, Mean

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• Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Promise, Dinner, Compatible

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Vanity Fair”, p.247

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