Despair has its own calms.
Bram Stoker
The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
Vikas Swarup
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.'... →
Studs Terkel
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself... →
Jules Verne
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.