DESPAIR

Despair is a great incentive to an honorable death. …..Curtis Rufus Quintus

He who has never hoped, can never Despair. …..William Shakespeare.

Despair is the conclusion of fools. ……Benjamin Disraeli.

What we call Despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ….George Eliot

To those who Despair of everything;
Reason cannot provide a faith. …..Albert Camus

Despair is a narcotic;
It lulls the mind into indifference. ….Charlie Chaplin

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. …Graham Greene

Despair is the damp of hell;
As joy is the serenity of heaven. …..John Donne

Despair often breeds disease. ……..Sophocles

He who dies in Despair has lived his whole life in vain. …….Theodor Adorno
Action is the antidote to despair. …..Joan Baez

We draw our strength from the very despair
in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. …….Cesar Chavez

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings. ……..Albert Einstein

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

Despair has its own calms. ……Bram Stoker

Blues are the songs of despair,
but gospel songs are the songs of hope. …….Mahalia Jackson

He is truly the courageous man, who never Despairs. …….Confucius

Do not abandon yourselves to despair.
We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. …….Pope John Paul II

To be truly radical is to make hope possible,
rather than despair convincing. …….Raymond Williams

You know one of the causes of modern despair
is the fact that we have had proposed to us,
from various quarters, an impossible perfection. …….Morris West

Life begins on the other side of despair. ………Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed;
Because the best things are always growing in secret. …….Ben Okri

The depth of our despair measures
what capability and height of claim we have to hope. ……Thomas Carlyle

But what we call our despair;
is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope ……George Eliot