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" Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. "

" Action is the antidote to despair. "

" A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear. "

" A novel is something, while despair is nothing. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

" Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins. "

" A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. "

Louis Finkelstein

" As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. "

" A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. "

Niccolo Machiavelli

" 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

" Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. "

" Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. "

" Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. "

" Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair. "

" Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. "

Mahalia Jackson

" Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. "

Bernard Berenson

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

" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "

" Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

" Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. "

Christopher Fry

" Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. "

" Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. "

Edmond de Goncourt

" Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. "

" Despair has its own calms. "

" Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. "

Charlie Chaplin

" Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. "

William Makepeace Thackeray

" Despair is the conclusion of fools. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. "

" Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. "

" Despair often breeds disease. "

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

Pope John Paul II

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