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Despair Quotes

"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."
Sigmund Freud
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Henry David Thoreau
"To live without hope is to cease to live."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
Haruki Murakami
"Life begins on the other side of despair"
Jean Paul Sartre
"I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim"
Frida Kahlo
"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope too can be given to one only by other human beings"
Elie Wiesel
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare
"Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life"
Franz Kafka
"People who don’t think they have a future make their own hell by waiting"
Ralph Nader
"Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair."
Karl A. Menninger