#despair

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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

— George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Eliot

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It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. ↗

— Raymond Williams

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There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. ↗

— Loretta Young

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

— Theodor Adorno

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