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“Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.”

Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

“In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.”

Humans Ends States Individual United United States Despair Collaboration Human Will

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.”

Love Ends Air Fine Lovers Despair Graves Silk Deck My Smile True Lovers Yew

Book:The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“I think despair and cynicism are two different things. On the flip side of hope is despair. Belief and doubt are the same thing, in that to believe something you have to actively doubt the opposite. And from my perspective, that's the deep end. You're dealing with the unknown; you're dealing with mystery.”

Thinking Believe Two Different Ends Belief Sides Doubt Mystery Perspective Despair Opposites Different Things Cynicism Flip Two Different Things

Author:Jon Foreman

“To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course... We are all doomed; we are all poisoned from our birth by the rot of stars. That does not mean we should succumb...to the seductive fallacy of despair, the dark tide that would drown us. You may think I'm stupid, you may call me a madman and a fool, but at least I stand upright in a fallen world.”

Source: The Isle of Blood

“Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.”

Ends Action Mistake Hero Circumstances Despair Victim Active Remembered Making Mistakes Apathy Cynicism Passive Antidote Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Bradley Whitford

“Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.”

Has Beens Ends Philosophy Joy Share Despair Caring

Author:George Michael