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Tag Name "Despair" (1036)

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Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.
Stephanie Mills
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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
Ruth Gordon
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Despair is infidelity and death.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Austin O'Malley
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Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.
Hadewijch
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Thomas Pynchon
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Despair makes priests and friars.
Martin Luther
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Despair and Genius are too oft connected
Lord Byron
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Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.
Geraldine Brooks
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Despair is a natural emotion.
Tim Kaine
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Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.
Terry Tempest Williams
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.
Christina Baldwin
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
Adrienne Rich
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Despair is the only cure for illusion.
Alexander Lowen
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Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
William James
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.
Philip Slater
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