Despair

Famous quotes containing the word despair:

“To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“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)

“What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other’s despair into hope?—
You yourself must change it.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)