"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."

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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Despair, Violence, Humanity, Ethics

"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Despair, Loneliness, Execution, Hope, Hope

"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Despair, Loneliness, Body, Love, Will

"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Addiction, Waiting, Isolation

"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Despair, Ignorance, Destruction, Awareness, Consequences

"Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Despair, Consciousness, Evil, Awareness

"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Despair, Desperation, Distress, Emotion, Crisis

"Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Despair, Universe, Life, Devil

"Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Despair, Suicide, Life, Crime, Awakening

"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Escape, Existence, Life

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"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."

"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."

"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."

"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."

"Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair."

"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

"Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep."

"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence."

Explore more quotes by Miguel de Cervantes

"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."

"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."

"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."

"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."