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Despair Quotes

"The sea has neither meaning nor pity."
Anton Chekhov
"The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride; the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair."
Charles Spurgeon
"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top"
John Keats
"My spirit is too weak mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep"
John Keats
"The greatest pride or the greatest despair arises from love of fame"
Baruch Spinoza
"I like living I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing"
Agatha Christie
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness"
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
Elie Wiesel
"Abandon all hope, you who enter here"
Dante Alighieri
"The worst pain isn't the withering of the body, but the withering of the heart"
Jose Saramago
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Oh the mad coupling of hope and force in which we merged and despaired"
Pablo Neruda
"Without you I am nothing, just the empty hull that passed through all."
Pablo Neruda
"There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair."
Aldous Huxley
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."
Mary Shelley
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