I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.