Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. Andre Breton
What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. David Sedaris
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. John L. Lewis