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Letter "D" » despairs
«One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself»
Author: Henri Petit
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despairs
«If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.»
Author: Robert Graves
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«A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is ''sensitive';' or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture / in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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«He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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condition, coward, despairs, Human condition, The Human Condition
«It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.»
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
God
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adversity, careless, Despaired, despairing, despairs, prescience, prosperity, senseless, suffer, Things to Come, understanding
«If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.»
«I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
despairs, mocking
«Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
| Keywords:
despair, Despaired, despairs, kindness, manifestations, resolution, signing, signs, sign in, sign on, sign over, sign up, strength, tenderness, weakness
«She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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