Despair

QUOTES

Human life begins on the far side of despair.
 Jean Paul Sartre
 Les Mouches, 1943

The mass of men leads lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
 Henry David Thoreau
 Walden,

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
 F ScottFitzgerald
 1936

I want to be forgotten even by God.
 Robert Browning
 Paracelsus, 1835

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
 Graham Greene
 Heart of the Matter, 1948

See Also Optimism

References

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