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Despair

«Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.»
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Despair | Keywords: pays, setting
«Despair is a great incentive to honorable death»
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus | About: Despair | Keywords: incentive, incentives
«Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.»
«I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside»
Author: Dave Matthews Band | About: Despair, Hell
«Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness»
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur»
«Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven»
Author: John Donne | About: Despair, Joy | Keywords: damp, damps, serenity
«Despair ruins some, presumption many»
«Despair is the conclusion of fools»