Despair Quotes

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. (“Hamlet”)

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.