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Despair Quotes

"I like living I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing"
Agatha Christie
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
Elie Wiesel
"Abandon all hope, you who enter here"
Dante Alighieri
"The worst pain isn't the withering of the body, but the withering of the heart"
Jose Saramago
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired"
Pablo Neruda
"Without you I am nothing, just the empty hull that passed through all."
Pablo Neruda
"There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair."
Aldous Huxley
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."
Mary Shelley
"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett
"Everything is inertia to sadness, not to happiness. "
Fernando Pessoa
"To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all."
Soren Kierkegaard
"The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope."
William Shakespeare
"We are all routinely encouraged to become cynical, despairing and bitter; the trick is to tell the truth without falling into these traps."
Alain de Botton
"Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself"
Soren Kierkegaard
"How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home."
Emile Zola
"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts "
Alain de Botton
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
Jean Paul Sartre
"In every cry of every Man"
William Blake
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