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Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.


Joseph Brodsky
Tags: Only Form Despair
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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.


Jose Bergamin
Tags: Born Novel Poem
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.


Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tags: Myself Must Lose
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.


William Makepeace Thackeray
Tags: Good You Dinner
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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.


Terry Southern
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.


Mahalia Jackson
Tags: Hope Songs Blues
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.


Christopher Fry
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.


Theodor Adorno
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.


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


Joseph Addison
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.


Eugene Ionesco
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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.


Pope John Paul II
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I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.


Andrew Motion
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.


Natalie Merchant
Tags: Hope Like Want
When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration.
Tibor Fischer
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller
Tags: Food End Itself
I didn't want 'BSG' to have to rewrite Anders as a sniveling, whining ball of despair who's hiding out in the corner.
Michael Trucco
Tags: Out Want Ball
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Tags: Hope Always Been
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Susannah McCorkle
Tags: God You About
No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.
Rick Scott
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
Tags: You Love Going
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Mikhail Bakunin
Tags: Hope Every Day
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Jack Reynor
Tags: Business You Get
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
Tags: Work People Get
There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.
Lawrence Wright
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Tags: Best Over Mind
We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
Brennan Manning
Tags: God Power Hope
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Rick Warren
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.
Penelope Mitchell
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All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
Tags: Humor World Were
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
Gordon Strachan
Tags: You Know Your
We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.
Ron Pope
Tags: Hope Faith About
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Paul Westerberg
Tags: Best Me About
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But 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
Tags: Work Hope More
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Tags: Who Us Moment
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
Orison Swett Marden
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