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I will indulge
my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of
despair.
-- Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist,
Poet, Statesman
Despair, in
short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds
its own level.
-- A. Alvarez
1929-, British Critic, Poet,
Novelist
So long as we
have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair,
we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by
which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
-- Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater
Producer, Actor, Theorist
Action is the
antidote to despair.
-- Joan Baez
1941-, American Singer,
Songwriter
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Intellectual
despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in
violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to
one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen
around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
-- Georges Bataille
1897-1962, French Novelist,
Critic
Then my verse
I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my
temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my
shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
-- William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet,
Painter
To those who
despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but
only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion
that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and
hatred.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
The depth of
our despair measures what capability and height of claim we
have to hope.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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