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“Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.”
Megan Derr“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."-white oleander”
Janet Fitch, White Oleander“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.”
George Eliot“If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.”
Matshona Dhliwayo“No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)”
Erasmus“I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.”
Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Heart of His People“It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.”
Anonymous“What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.”
Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual“The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs" (36-37).”
Alejo Carpentier“I knew right then you were the only one for me." He pulled her handfrom his face, kissed her palm, then pressed it flat against his chest. "Beatings, battles, fights. No matter how bleak the circumstance, no matter how my soul despaired ... this heart never once gave up." His voice deepened, went thick with emotion. "I've a theory as to why. Do you want to hear it?"She nodded."This heart is yours. It's yours," he said. "It always will be.”
Tessa Dare, Twice Tempted by a Rogue