#despair

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? ↗

— Max Muller

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

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