Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.”
—Piers Paul Read (b. 1941)