#despair

Action is the antidote to despair. ↗

— Joan Baez

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again. ↗

— Avi Arad

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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ↗

— Albert Camus

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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. ↗

— Joan Baez

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Life begins on the other side of despair. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. ↗

— John Bunyan

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I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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