#despair

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ↗

— William Cowper

#death #despair #frustrates #hope #love

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#despair #hope #make #possible #radical

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#address #carefully #common #confidence #consider

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

#better #change #change the world #despair #fear

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#comfort #despair #either #end #find

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#dies #his #life #lived #vain

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

#brain #brown #despair #flags #goes

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. ↗

— Anatole France

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