#despair

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#concerted effort #despair #does #done #effort

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#despair #easiest #easiest thing #good #hope

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#copy #cry #crying #despair #fall