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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 3)
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Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of
seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except
thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind
of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
Author: Richard Baxter
Source: Saint's Rest (ch. VI)
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The world goes whispering to its own,
"This anguish pierces to the bone;"
And tender friends go sighing round,
"What love can ever cure this wound?"
My days go on, my days go on.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: De Profundis (st. 5)
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The name of the Slough was Despond.
Author: John Bunyan
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I, ch. II)
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The nympholepsy of some fond despair.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
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Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.
Author: Sir John Denham
Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.
[Lat., Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (I, 7, 27)
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Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 141)
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Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 44)
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Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
[Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (IX, 5, 6)
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O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly,
But bear-like I must fight the course.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at V, vii)
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If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate;
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Greater than that.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Salisbury at III, ii)
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But, O thou tyrant,
Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
Than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee
To nothing but despair.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Paulina at III, ii)
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Winter's Tale (Paulina at III, ii)
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No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Prometheus Unbound (act I, l. 24)
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. . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: Revolt of Islam--Dedication (st. 6)
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Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play!
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Snow-Bound (l. 204)
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Action is the antidote to despair.
Author: Joan Baez
Source: None
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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Despair ruins some, presumption many.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Source: None
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Author: Graham Greene
Source: None
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
Author: Ezra Pound
Source: None
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Source: None
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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.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Author: William M. Thackeray
Source: None
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
Source: None
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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Author: Roger W. Babson
Source: None
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It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Source: None
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The man who lives only by hope will die with despair.
Author: Italian Proverb
Source: None
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What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Author: George Eliot
Source: None
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Author: Pierre Charron
Source: None
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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