"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."

Addison, Joseph · Despair · 0 fans >>
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"Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level."

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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."

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"Action is the antidote to despair."

Baez, Joan · Despair · 3 fans >>
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"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."

Bataille, Georges · Despair · 0 fans >>
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"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."

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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."

Camus, Albert · Despair · 2 fans >>
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

Carlyle, Thomas · Despair · 3 fans >>
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"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."

Cohen, Leonard · Despair · 1 fans >>
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

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