Despair has its own calms.
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Jonathan HarkerBram Stoker
each rebel against God, in the last instance, is himself reduced to despair. Despair is the limit -- There and no further!" Despair is the limit. Here are met the cowardly timorous ill-temper of self-love, and the proud defiant presumption of the mind -- here they are met in equal impotence.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
A person in despair wants despairingly to be himself. But surely if he wants despairingly to be himself, he cannot want to be rid of himself. Yes, or so it seems. But closer observation reveals the contradiction to be still the same. The self which, in his despair, he wants to be is a self he is not (indeed, to want to be the self he truly is, is the very opposite of despair).
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong, it calms me.
Antonio Porchia
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,
And makes the happiness she does not find.Samuel Johnson
And the other Don Quixote remained here among us, fighting with desperation. And does he not fight out of despair? ...But "despair is the master of possibilities," as we learn from Salazar y Torres (Elegir al enemigo, Act I.), and it is despair and despair alone that begets heroic hope, absurd hope, mad hope. Spero quia absurdum [I hope because it is absurd], it ought to have been said, rather than credo [Credo quia absurdam — I believe because it is absurd].
Miguel de Unamuno
Stoker, Bram
Stokes, Sir George
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