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Despair |
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Quotations
 | There is not love of life without despair about life. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 6 likes |
 | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 6 likes |
 | Life begins on the other side of despair. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 5 likes |
 | Do not hope without despair, or despair without hope. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 5 likes |
 | Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 5 likes |
 | Despair is anger with no place to go. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | Despair is the only unforgivable sin. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 4 likes |
 | Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 3 likes |
 | I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. — Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | The worst moment for my patients was when they discovered that they were masters of their own fate. It was no longer a question of good or bad luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they despaired. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 1 likes |
 | It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. |
 | She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. |
| A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. |
 | A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones. |
| But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
 | Misery is almost always the result of thinking. |
| Happiness is a myth invented by the devil to make us despair. |
 | Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy. |
 | Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. |
 | Despair swallows up cowardice. |
 | I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. |
 | God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. |
 | An ancient rule of ethics and politics is that you should never push your enemy into despair. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. |
 | Religion is the counterfeit currency of despair. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. |
| People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. |
| The most common form of despair is not being who you are. |
 | I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. |
| Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. |
Latin Quotes
 | Never despair. Nil desperandum! 37 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Let's exchange body and loneliness. I shall give you despair to stop being an animal, you will give me strength to stop being a wreck. — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 7 likes |
 | I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 5 likes |
 | You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. |
Ancient Greek
 | What do I gain from living? I have no country, no home, no relief from my troubles. Τι μοι ζην κέρδος; Ούτε μοι πατρίς ούτ’ οίκος έστιν ούτ’ αποστροφή κακών. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes |
 | Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. Μη φύναι τον άπαντα νικά λόγον. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Oedipus Coloneus l |
