He who has never hoped can never despair.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there.

When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel, there is always someone down there.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire read more

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you read more

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.

The nympholepsy of some fond despair.