Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Despair – Edmund Burke
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot – Absolute Despair
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot – Despair
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau – Despair, Mankind
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau – Desperation
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde – Despair
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
Alfred Alvarez – Despair
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T.S. Eliot – Despair
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli – Desperation
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
