All my humor is based upon destruction and despair..

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible..

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness..

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair..

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light..

I learned to love despair..

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair..

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage..

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair..

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair..

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imaginatio….

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair..

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for ….

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair..

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair..

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a grea….

Never despair while under the guidance and auspices of Teucer..

Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciousl….

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair..

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress..

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’r….