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Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Novelist
Despair
Looks
Years
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Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.
Catherine Fisher
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Writer
Dream
Despair
Wall
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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
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Poet
Best
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Despair
Destroyed
Growing
Secret
Too Much
Best Beautiful Always
Much
Too
Perish
See
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Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
Guy Finley
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Writer
Despair
Disappointment
Expectations
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
Alexandre Dumas
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Writer
Valentine
Despair
Judging
Past
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Civil Rights Leader
Despair
Evil
Human Nature
Influence
Love You
Yield
Love Nature Man
Man
Been
Brute
Human
Essentially
Must
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
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Novelist
Change
Smile
Believe
Despair
Desperation
Drastic
Drastic Change
Raw Materials
Behind
Believed
Those
Ever
Leave
Escape
Material
Raw
Raw Material
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Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Artist
Despair
Soul
Years
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always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
Nancy Mitford
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Novelist
Black
Despair
Water
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It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.
Norman Cousins
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Journalist
Depression
Despair
Frustration
Hate
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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
Marcus Aurelius
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Roman Emperor
Despair
Giving Up
Principles
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Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
Jeremy Taylor
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Author
Despair
Loss
Sorrow
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Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.
Leonard Nimoy
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Actor
Despair
Frustration
Lonely
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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
Edward Teller
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Physicist
Believe
Despair
Evil
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Writer
Life
Despair
Mean
Pupils
Reality
Salvation
Gave
Hardly
Supporting
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There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
Henri Matisse
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Artist
Despair
Emotional
Enthusiasm
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I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.
Amanda Burton
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Actress
Girl
Bigger
Breasts
Despair
People
Work Done People
Work People Nothing
Tale
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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.
T. S. Eliot
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Playwright
Climbing
Despair
Fading
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Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.
Swami Vivekananda
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Author
Despair
Goal
Razors
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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank
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Photographer
Alternatives
Black
Black And White
Color
Despair
Forever
Mankind
Photography
Colors
Subjected
Symbolize
Which
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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
Howard Thurman
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Author
Despair
Giving
Heart
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Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.
Leo Tolstoy
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Writer
Despair
Pain
Sea
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But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
Zachary Quinto
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Actor
Despair
Get Better
Video
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The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
Iris Murdoch
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Author
Childhood
Children
Despair
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The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Philosopher
Common
Despair
Form
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The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
Bertrand Russell
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Philosopher
Despair
Grows
Stoic
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When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
Rich Cohen
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Battle
Despair
Terrorism
Facing
Solution
Tendency
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Laurie Anderson
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Artist
Corporate
Despair
People
Suffering
Triumph
Wonder
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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
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Author
Belief
Choices
Despair
Existential
Grew
Marijuana
My Generation
Religious
Religious Belief
Stage
Choice
Chose
Faced
Generation
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The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
Jason Gedrick
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Despair
Halls
Visiting
Poker
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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.
John Steinbeck
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Author
Men
Despair
House
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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Author
Hope
Despair
Life Journey
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I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
Joyce Cary
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Novelist
Love
Despair
Heart
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I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.
Sonny Rollins
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Saxophonist
Music
Despair
Progress
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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.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Despair
Discontent
Inconvenience
Mortals
Natural
Thyself
Neither
Room
Persuade
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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
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Despair
Imperfection
Rooms
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The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.
Elmer Davis
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Author
Despair
Dozen
Following
Publicity
Agencies
News Business
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This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.
Jane Alexander
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Film Actress
Despair
Drama
Passion
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Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
Madonna Ciccone
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Singer-Songwriter
Despair
Sadness
Suffering
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The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.
Marc Maron
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Comedian
Anxiety
Despair
World
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We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Despair
Needs
Perfection
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It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.
David Whyte
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Poet
Abandoned
Despair
Want
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
Benito Mussolini
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Former Duce
Men
Despair
Numbers
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Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.
Tariq Ramadan
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Writer
Men
Adversity
Despair
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Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
Louisa May Alcott
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Novelist
Despair
Rome
Vanity
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We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
John Lewis
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U.s. Representative
Despair
Progress
Sea
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As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
Alain De Botton
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Writer
Depression
Despair
Fool
Gloom
Prone
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I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Writer
Depression
Creativity
Despair
Sorrow
Continuous
Suppose
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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
A.m. Jenkins
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Writer
Despair
Messengers
Wish
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
Dean Koontz
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Author
Antidote
Despair
Laughter
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