Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!!... What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, & eating bananas for breakfast.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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