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My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

My only hope lies in my despair.

My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

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

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

One shouldn’t despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe

One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Paint here no draped despairs, no saddening clouds, Where the soul rests, proclaims eternity. But let the wrong cry out as raw as wounds, This Time forgets and never heals, far less transcends.