We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
Val McDermid
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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
Jack Reynor
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
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Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Robert Greene
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
Trent Reznor
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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.
Jules Verne
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry
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Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille
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I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.
Rene Girard
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The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
George Will
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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Elie Wiesel
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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Lawrence Welk
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'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing
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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
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There's always hope, and there's always despair.
Andrea Riseborough
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
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The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
Jason Gedrick
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