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despairing

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1. despairing - Noun

2. despairing - Adjective

3. despairing - Verb

5. despairing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Despair

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. John L. Lewis

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery. Edith Wharton

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Sylvia Plath

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. Kay Redfield Jamison

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