Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Despair Quotes

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

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My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies.

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Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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Despair and Genius are too oft connected

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Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.

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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

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Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

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Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

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

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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

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