“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“Never despair…”
Nil desperandum...

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”

“The poet
never must lose despair.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

“Someone in despair despairs over something. So, for a moment, it seems, but only for a moment. That same instant the true despair shows itself, or despair in its true guise. In despairing over something he was really despairing over himself, and he wants now to be rid of himself.”

“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”

“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."
-white oleander”

“The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”