Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair…

“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”

— Rachel Abbott

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to…

— Caroline Myss

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls…

— Charlotte Bronte

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

— Henry Vaughan

“A fine setting for a fit of despair,” it occurred to him, “if I were only standing here by accident instead of design.”

— Franz Kafka

Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be…

— Louaiq8

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

— John Ortberg

Do not consider despair as a thick and high wall standing on your way; it is just a darkness and you can still walk…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a…

— Graham Greene

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

— Edmund Burke

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,…

— John Steinbeck