"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

Despair, Heaven, Hell, Joy

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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."

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"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Despair, Will

"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

Despair, Patience

"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

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"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Despair, Formula

"The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair."

Michael Cunningham, American Writer

Despair, Difference, Trying

"Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair."

William Dunbar, Scottish Poet

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"Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again."

Harold E. Hughes, American Politician

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"The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy."

Max Jacob, French Poet

Despair, Expression, Joy, Reality

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Despair, London, Man, Paris