Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“... despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
—Piers Paul Read (b. 1941)

“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)