You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
Despair has its own calms.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Despair often breeds disease.
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.
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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