Famous quotes containing the word despair:
“What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other’s despair into hope?—
You yourself must change it.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936)