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Source: A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)

“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.”

Special Despair Nihilism Sacredness

Author:Dean Ornish

“I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.”

Should Despair Degrees Rage Loud Bottles Should I Belly Disturbing Basements

Book:The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

“Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”

Men Wells Age Earth Joy Grief Despair

Book:Dance on the earth: a memoir

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“Despair makes priests and friars.”

Despair Priests Friars

Author:Martin Luther

“It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.”

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Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.”

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Author:Friedrich Engels

“There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by poor health and challenges of life which leave them in despair. I’ve always believed in the truth of the words, ‘God’s sweetest blessings always go by hands that serve him here below.’ Let us have ready hands, clean hands, and willing hands, that we may participate in providing what our Heavenly Father would have others receive from Him.”

May Helping Hands Father Challenges Poor Willing Ready Praying Blessing Despair Clean Heavenly Providing Discouraged Always Believe Sweetest Heavenly Father Poor Health Clean Hands

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth.” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth.”

Men Said Sin Doubt Sorrow Despair Capacity Passages Disbelief Altered Redeemer Passage Of Time Newness Lazarus Newness Of Life

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.”

Heart Band Despair Iron

Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.”

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Author:Jürgen Moltmann

“Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.”

Behinds Despair Misery Indifference Mask Callousness

Book:Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].

Source: Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].

“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and beauty so great as to demand another reading. As I read, I found myself devastated by the thoroughness of the book's annihilating sensibility and revived by the beauty of its language, the complexity of its design, the melancholy, horror and stoic sympathy in its rendering of what we used to call the human condition.”

“When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.”

Men Believe Mean Stills Music Despair

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”

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Book:Sickness Unto Death

Source: Sickness Unto Death

“Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.”

Religion Atheism Despair Positive Atheism Submit Resignation

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.”

Men Two Christian Jesus Christ Teach Knowing Pride Despair Elements Capable Jesus Christ Claims Corruption God Knows Unworthy Begets Knowledge Of God Wretchedness Pascal

Author:William Lane Craig

“With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.”

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Author:E. B. White

“Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”

Loss Despair Intimacy Flaws Engines Anticipation

Author:Andrew Solomon

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