#despair

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've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Despair often breeds disease. ↗

— Sophocles

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

— Terry Southern

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With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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