Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement who can tolerate not knowing... not healing not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder and its end is despair.

We've all had that fear that despair of losing someone or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is the more desire we have.

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.

Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Now God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness comfort in despair.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure of disappointment of despair and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons or whether one wants to overturn them.