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Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.