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“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
Anthony Robbins Quotes |
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“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”
William S. Burroughs Quotes |
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“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you”
Don McLean Quotes |
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“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim”
Graham Greene Quotes |
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“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven”
John Donne Quotes |
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“Despair ruins some, presumption many”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”
Alfred Victor Vigny Quotes |
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“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.”
Joseph Addison Quotes 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.”
Richard Baxter Quotes 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.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: De Profundis (st. 5)
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“The name of the Slough was Despond.”
John Bunyan Quotes Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I, ch. II)
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“The nympholepsy of some fond despair.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 115)
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“Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.”
Sir John Denham Quotes Source: Essay on Vergil's Aeneid
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“Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.”
Sir John Denham Quotes 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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 7, 27)
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“Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.”
John Milton Quotes 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.”
John Milton Quotes 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.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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