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• Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

  Peter Stone

  Simple, Earthquakes, Disease

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• Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Loss, Sorrow, Fever

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• Everything passes. Joy. Pain. The moment of triumph; the sigh of despair. Nothing lasts forever - not even this.

  Paul Stewart

  Pain, Joy, Forever

  "Midnight Over Sanctaphrax". Book by Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2000.

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• Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

  Lu Xun

  Deceptive, Hollow

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• I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Artist, Feelings

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• But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Jobs, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Honesty, Powerful, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.42

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Church

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Despair is the only cure for illusion.

  Alexander Lowen

  Illusion, Cures

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• We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Hysteria, Confusion, Age

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

  Ralph Nader

  Worry, Trying, Generations

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• One should never despair too soon.

  Frederick The Great

  Should

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Weakness, Lawyer, Sin

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• The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Past, Light, Stories

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.55, Random House

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• Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Acid, Form, Alienation

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Valleys, I Have A Dream Speech

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

  Woody Allen

  Choices, Path, Crossroads

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• Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  Guy Finley

  Disappointment, Expectations, Fruit

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• It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

  Laurie Garrett

  Giving Up, Democracy, Too Much

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• Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspiration, Together, Repentance

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.94, Penguin

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• How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

  Karsten Harries

  Kitsch, Easy, Lyrical

  Karsten Harries (1968). “Meaning of Modern Art”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

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• ... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

  Mary Oliver

  Risk, Comfort

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, Giving, Perspective

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.

  Jon Bernthal

  Sleep, Home, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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