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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Sadness, Learning

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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• Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

  John Cheever

  Literature, World, Lovers

  "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.

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• We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Void, Tots

  "A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.

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• There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

  Edmund Burke

  Doe, Circumstances, Inactivity

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• Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Pilots, Sin

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.179, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.

  Confucius

  Men, Courageous Man, Courageous

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• Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

  Hannah More

  Dumb, Littles, Rage

  Hannah More (1853). “Tragedies, poems”, p.158

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• More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

  Antonin Artaud

  Mean, Men, Long

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• He who has never hoped can never despair

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Hope, Expectations

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

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• Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

  John Shelby Spong

  Real, People, Enemy

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

  Ellis Peters

  Sin, Folly, Mortals

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.1400, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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• The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Facts, Dare

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  William Shakespeare

  God, Use, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 129

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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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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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• It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

  Robert Collier

  Mean, Ordinary, Helping

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Despair often breeds disease.

  Sophocles

  Disease

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

  John Milton

  Grace, No Fear, Lost

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.169

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• Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

  Ben Okri

  Beautiful, Secret, Growing

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

  William Walsh

  Hope, Expectations, Endure

  'Song: Of All the Torments'

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