despair Quotes

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that and manage it against despairing thoughts.”

― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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“the most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.”

― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down, which in every metropolis is most in evidence through the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end—it's come! She loves me!”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

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“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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