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    Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

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In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

by Anthony Robbins Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

by William M. Thackeray Found in: Despair Quotes,
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What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

by George Eliot Found in: Despair Quotes,
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

by George Eliot Found in: Despair Quotes,
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Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Despair Quotes,
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but read more

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Despair Quotes,
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O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
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O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once!
To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here,
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!

by William Shakespeare Found in: Despair Quotes,
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have read more

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

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O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
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O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Despair Quotes,
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