Definition of Despair

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Despair

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

To cause to despair.

Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

That which is despaired of.

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Despair Quotations

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

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson

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

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

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

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Despair Translations

despair in Danish is fortvivle, fortvivlelse
despair in Dutch is vertwijfelen, wanhopen
despair in German is verzweifeln, verzweifeln, Verzweifelung
despair in Italian is disperare, disperazione
despair in Latin is despero
despair in Norwegian is fortvile, fortvilelse
despair in Portuguese is desespero

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