“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry
“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you”
Don McLean
“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.”
T.S. Eliot
“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven”
John Donne
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
Lenny Bruce
“We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behind the unrelenting despair?”
Desmond Tutu
