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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
Rollo May
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
Oscar Wilde
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
George Bernard Shaw
“When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it”
“Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”
Buddha
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Woody Allen
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits”
William Shakespeare
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