"The very knowledge that he lived in vain, That all was over on this side the tomb, Had made Despair a smilingness ass…"

"Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for m…"

"To have fallen is not a grievous thing, but to remain prostrate after falling, and not to get up again; and, playing …"

"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have no…"

"[W]hat we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."

"Bid me despair, and I’ll despair, Under that cypress tree: Or bid me die, and I will dare E’en Death, to die for thee…"

"In the dark night of despair, when every light has gone out for the sufferer, there is still one place where the ligh…"

"Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!"