#despair

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. ↗

— Emile Lahud

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ↗

— R. D. Laing

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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. ↗

— David Livingstone

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Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. ↗

— Terry Southern

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