But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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 often breeds disease.
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.