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One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
We are all unique, which makes us beautiful; so never despair, and just chill the hell out about it all.
...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.
Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.
I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.