Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Despair Quotes
Despair is criminal.
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits.
Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.
I can endure my own despair but not another’s hope.
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
The sins against hope are despair, as anticipated failure, and presumption, as anticipated fulfilment. In both these cases man seeks to break out of his pilgrim existence and have his life otherwise than from the hand of God.
What matters it to a blind man that his father could see?
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! (words inscribed over the gates of Hell.)
