#despair

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

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Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

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Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. ↗

— Robert Frank

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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Despair gives courage to a coward. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank. ↗

— James Frey

#guilt #hopelessness #suicide #death

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

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