If you paint a black picture, the picture will be black.

Despair is a failure of will, not hope.

Despair is a refusal to accept reality.

Despair is a refusal to accept the worst.

Despair is what happens when you think without acting.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy.

What a betrayal of life, of sense, to choose hate over love, despair over happiness.

We learn nothing from despair and that's what makes it despair.