• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

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  Günter Grass

  AuthorGerman1927 · 20th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 5 reads

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• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 155 reads

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• O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 58 reads

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• 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.

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  Antonin Artaud

  PoetFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 179 reads

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• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 58 reads

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• The person who lives by hope will die by despair.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.4 · 27 votes · 192 reads

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• 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.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 13 reads

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• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 197 reads

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• To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 188 reads

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• 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

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 155 reads

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 156 reads

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