#despair

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Christopher Fry

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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. ↗

— David Mallet

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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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