Despair Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• There is no love of life without despair of life.

  Albert Camus

  Love Life, No Love

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Imperfection, Rooms, Natural

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• Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Weakness, Misery

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• I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Silence

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

  Ezra Pound

  Too Late, Void, Strange

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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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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• To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Passion, Ideas, Revolutionary

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• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

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• Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

  David Livingstone

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Not Giving Up

  David Livingstone, Horace Waller (2011). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: Continued by a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from His Faithful Servants, Chuma and Susi”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ephemeral, Matter, Novel

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel”, p.79, Macmillan

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• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Religious, Marijuana, Choices

  Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Encouraging, Spiritual

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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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• We should impart our courage and not our despair.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Should, Impart

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.438, Bloomsbury Publishing

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