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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire read more
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
 Thus repuls'd, our final hope
 Is flat despair.  
 Thus repuls'd, our final hope
 Is flat despair. 
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in read more
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
 Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
 That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.  
 Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
 That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. 
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to read more
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.