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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

— Stephen Fry

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

— Nathan Wolfe

Life begins on the other side of despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

— Bruce Cockburn

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

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

— Ben Okri

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

— Edmund Burke

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

— Franz Kafka

✗Opposing Perspectives

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

— George Eliot