"A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease."
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"Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages."
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"Despair gives courage to a coward."
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"The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume."
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"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."
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"There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing."
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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."
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"Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments."
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"Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine"
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
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"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."
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"A positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger of despair"
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"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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"Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair."
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"Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us."
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"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."
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"I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair."
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"Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair."
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"Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope."
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"The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . ."
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