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Despair: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

There's nothing in this world can make me joy; Life is as tedious as a twice told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.— K. J. iii. 4

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope; he is a flatterer, A parasite, a keeper back of death, Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity.— R. II. ii. 2.

Now let not Nature's hand Keep the wild flood confin'd! Let order die! And let this world no longer be a stage, To feed contention in a lingering act; But let one spirit of the first-born Cain Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, And darkness be the burier of the dead. H. IV. PT. II. i. 1. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of might disponge upon me; That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me; throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault; Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish all foul thoughts.— A. C. iv. 9.

I pull in resolution; and begin To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth.— M. v.

O, I am fortune's fool!— R J. iii. L.

I shall despair. - There is no creature loves me; And, if I die, no soul will pity me;- Nay, wherefore should they? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.— R. III. v. 3

For now I stand as one upon a rock, Environ'd with a wilderness of sea; Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when some envious surge Will, in his brinish bowels, swallow him.— Tit. And. iii. I

They have tied me to the stake, I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.— M. V. 7.

Take the hint Which my despair proclaims; let that be left Which leaves itself.— A. C. iii. 9.

I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, And wish the estate of the world were now undone. M. v. 5. Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair.— C. iii. 3.

My very hairs do mutiny; for the white Reprove the brown for rashness; and they them— A. C. iii. 9.

For fear and doting.