Despair is part of love.

“Live with no regrets, dream not despair, and once in a while, love without a care.”

— Rachel E. Greene

“People despair of love stupidly – I have despaired of it myself — they live in servitude to this idea that love is always…

— André Breton

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all…

— Ellis Peters

“Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our…

— Stanisław Lem

“The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.”

— Jane Krainin

“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

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

— Henry Vaughan

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

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

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

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

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

— Carla H Krueger

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

— Rachel Abbott

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich