I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
Love and despair go hand in hand.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
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