Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)

“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“The modernist writers found despair inspirational.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)