DESPAIR

Related Subjects: Desolation, Fear, Grief, Misery, Remorse, Sorrow, Suicide

1. I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
   To all the pangs and fury of despair.—ADDISON, Cato
   

2. The nympholepsy of some fond despair.—BYRON, Childe Harold.
   

3. Now a' is done that men can do,
   And a' is done in vain.—BURNS, It Was a' For Our Rightful King
   

4. Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day,
   Live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away.—COWPER, The Needless Alarm
   

5. Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.—QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS, De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni
   

6. The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.—DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
   

7. Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.—JOHN DONNE
   

8. What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.—GEORGE ELIOT
   

9. Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.—FIELDING
   

10. Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that mortification gives to the body.—GREVILLE
    

11. He who despairs wants love and faith, for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.—META STASIO
    

12. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

13. The strongest and the fiercest spirit
    That fought in heaven,
    Now fiercer by despair.—MILTON, Paradise Lost

14. Discomfort guides my tongue
    And bids me speak of nothing but despair.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
    

15. My ending is despair.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

16. Thou tyrant!
    Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
    Than all thy woes can stir: therefore, betake thee
    To nothing but despair.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
    

17. No change, no pause, no hope!
    Yet I endure.—SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound
    

18. Then black despair,
    The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
    Over the world in which I moved alone.—SHELLEY, Revolt of Islam
    

19. The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.—MME. SWETCHINE
    

20. It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.—JEREMY TAYLOR
    

21. The only refuge from despair is to project one's ego into the world.—TOLSTOY
    

22. Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.—VERGIL, Aeneid
    

23. I can endure my own despair,
    But not another's hope.—WILLIAM WALSH, Song