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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.
If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
I feel like a blonde nothingness, alone in my own body ...... Today it's not drugs that fill my body, its despair.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.
Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world.
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
Although love unreturned can drive you to despair, trust that somewhere out there, someone is waiting just for you.
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure.
Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.