I'm not despairing of love at all.

“Despairing of love and of chastity, I at last bethought myself of debauchery, a substitute for love, which quiets the laughter, restores silence, and…

— Albert Camus

Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

— William Blake

“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To…

— John Bercow

Newman cast a despairing glance at his small store of fuel, but, not having the courage to say no-a word which in all his…

— Charles Dickens

“Love makes you strong when others are weak, brave when others are scared, hopeful when others are despairing and cheerful when others are sad.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

— Andre Breton

“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

— Martin McDonagh

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

— Nancy Springer

I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two…

— Emily Raboteau

“A despairing arse will never produce a happy fart.”

— Frater U.D

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

— Heinrich Heine

“The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.”

— Paul Russell