#despair

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. ↗

— Aberjhani

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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#despair #draw #endure #forced #live

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

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