| Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. -- Albert Camus |
| Author:
Camus, AlbertEra:
1913 |
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| A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. -- Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Author:
Machiavelli, NiccoloEra:
1469 |
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| "Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, despairing of his fee to-morrow. -- John Gay |
| Author:
Gay, JohnEra:
1685 |
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| Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| 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. -- George Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, GeorgeEra:
1819 |
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