Quotes of: Despair Keyword

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

Marshall McLuhan

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

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Joan Baez

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

Cesar Chavez

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

Joseph Addison

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

Anatole France

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

A Fine Balance

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

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

Kushiel's Dart

Alan McCluskey “Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

In Search of Lost Girls

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Letters of John Keats

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Longinus the Vampire: Redemption

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Suicide and the Soul

Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

What Falls Away: A Memoir

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

Middlemarch

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

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