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• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  Hector Berlioz

  Writing, Ideas, Forget

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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• I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Fate, Saws

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• Though plunged in ills and exercised in care,
  Yet never let the noble mind despair.

  Wendell Phillips

  Mind, Noble, Care

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• Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Heart, Feet, Tears

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• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  Abbe Pierre

  People, Should, Young

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Eye, Night

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.360, GENERAL PRESS

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• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Song, Gospel Songs

  Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Roots, Hatred

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol A. Dingle, p. 40, January 1, 2000.

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• You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

  Joan Baez

  Adversity, White, May

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, God, Friday

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.155, David C Cook

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• God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Spirit, Unfaithful

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Games, Amusement, Muskrats

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.15

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• When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

  Avi Arad

  Aviation, Clean, Get Up

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• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Yarn, Together

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

  Rumi

  Darkness, Sun, There Is Hope

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• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

  Herbert Read

  Attitude, Political, Today

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

  Horace

  Guidance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 189-90, Carmina, I, 7, 27, 1922.

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• To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

  Denis Kearney

  Tyrants, World, Aristocracy

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• It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, Nurse, Teeth

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• I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• Life begins on the other side of despair.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Stupid, Optimism, Needs

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.80, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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