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Despair Quotes - Page 7

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.78, Macmillan

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.11, Cambridge University Press