There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
Arthur Henderson

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
Raymond Williams

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Philip Massinger

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Emile M. Cioran

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
Mikhail Bakunin

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
David Mallet

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Robert Greene

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emile M. Cioran

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Elie Wiesel

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
Abbe Pierre

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
John Strachan