There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
Despair has its own calms.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.