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Letter "D" » 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.»
Author: Alfred Victor Vigny | About: Anger, Despair, Hope | Keywords: abolish, convulsion, convulsions, reproaches
«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.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | About: Change, Despair | Keywords: desperation, drastic, in the raw, leave behind, raw, raw material, raw materials
«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»
Author: Don Williams, Jr | About: Despair, Preparation
«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»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Despair | Keywords: freezing, freezing point, practices, unforgivable
«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»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Despair | Keywords: presumption, presumptions, ruins
«Despair is the conclusion of fools»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | About: Despair | Keywords: The Conclusion
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