American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat. , Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare. ]
A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch
We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.
It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
. . . and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.