Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Action is the antidote to despair.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.