Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
