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
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare
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
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
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck
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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