Despair

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)

“Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt ... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)

“Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)