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