Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“The modernist writers found despair inspirational.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
—Michele Murray (1933–1974)