No words that I can recall, just primitive despair. No…

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in.…

— John Bunyan

“and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its…

— William Faulkner

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that…

— Zadie Smith

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely…

— Annie Baker

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

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

— Louaiq8

“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