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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

» Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) French playwright, and poet

To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

» Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845) American poet, critic, and short-story writer

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

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. On

» Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer

The person who lives by hope will die by despair.

» Italian proverb (-)

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

» Jean Paul (1763-1825) German novelist and humorist

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

» Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, and dramatist

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

» Leonard Cohen (1934-?) Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Despair gives courage to a coward.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.

» Anonymous (-)

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

» Günter Grass (1927-?) German author

Life begins on the other side of despair.

» Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French Writerand philosopher

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.

» Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism[Assassination by shooting]

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

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