"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."

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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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Andrew Motion, English Poet

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R. D. Laing, Scottish Psychologist

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"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"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

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"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

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"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

William Congreve, English Poet

Despair, Flags, Invention, Study

"I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Despair, Death, Depression, Life, Survival

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

Philip Massinger, British Poet

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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."

"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."

"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

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"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."

"All love is lost but upon God alone."

"To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow."

"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."