In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.
Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
