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• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

  e. e. cummings

  Eye, Night, Laughing

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• I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, May, Return

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• I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months. (81)

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Numbness, Wish, Void

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Oct 29, 2012

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• Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

  Jim Butcher

  Mind, Belief, Surrender

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• You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

  Sophie Hannah

  Giving, Hope And Faith, Midst

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• To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Men, Matter

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.

  Richelle Mead

  Missing, Gone, Might

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.51, Kensington Books

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• ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

  John Piper

  Dark, Pessimism, Hopelessness

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• we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

  Dean Koontz

  Laughter, Antidote, Remains

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

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• Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Teacher, Men, Decision

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• Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

  Novalis

  Pain, Soul, Mind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.34, SUNY Press

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• The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

  John Kennedy Toole

  New Orleans, Hands, Apathy

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press

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• It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

  William P. Young

  Games, Slides, Easy

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• A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

  Rick Riordan

  Leadership, Troops, Mouths

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• She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Teacher, Strong, Home

  The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)

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• In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

  Muriel Barbery

  Lying, Believe, Mirrors

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• No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

  John Calvin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Moving

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• Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Children, Crazy, Heroism

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• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Choices

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• “You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Depth, Green, Green Gables

  "Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography".

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• It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Long, Sorrow, Stories

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• The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Art, Jobs

  "Fictional character: Gertrude Stein". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Alcoholism, Seasons

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• Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Would Be, Able, Bitter

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