Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller

Despair has its own calms.
Bram Stoker

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Vladimir Lenin

Despair often breeds disease.
Sophocles

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Ben Okri

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
Franz Kafka

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Buddha

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
Cesar Chavez

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus