When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

- Abbe Pierre

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

- Charles Baudelaire

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

- Cesar Chavez

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

- C. S. Lewis

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

- Bernard Berenson

Love and despair go hand in hand.

- Barry Hannah

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

- Bruce Dickinson

Despair has its own calms.

- Bram Stoker

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

- Benjamin Disraeli

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

- Avi Arad

There is no love of life without despair of life.

- Albert Camus

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

- Amanda Burton

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

- Andrew Motion

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

- Alexandre Dumas

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

- Antonin Artaud

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

- Alexander Payne

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

- Anatole France

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

- Albert Einstein