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There's a lot of despair in the USA. Young people are afraid for the future.
I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.
For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.