Despair

"For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that."

"Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair."

"Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once! To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here; And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!"

"Thou tyrant! Do not repent these things, for they are heavier Than all thy woes can stir: therefore, betake thee To nothing but despair."

"No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure."

"then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone."

"Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!"

"Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his mind, a slough that he carried everywhere with him, or else he could never have been as he was."

"Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven."

"Disordered nerves are the origin of much religious despair, when the individual does not suspect it; and then the body and mind have a reciprocal influence upon each other, and it is difficult to tell which influences the other most. The physician is often blamed, when the fault lies with the minister. Depression never benefits body or soul. We are saved by hope."

"It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent."

"Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope."