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As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. -- Philip Yancey
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. -- Mikhail Bakunin
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools. -- Peter Medawar
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem -- Ernest Becker
In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair. -- Suzanne Collins
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope. -- John Lancaster Spalding
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on. -- Eleanor Cameron

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