#despairing

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. ↗

— David Sedaris

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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal. ↗

— Magnus Magnusson

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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful. ↗

— Don McLean

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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. ↗

— Nellie Bly

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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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Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

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There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

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