Definition of Despairing

Despairing

of Despair

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.

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Despair, Expressing, Feeling, Hopeless, Of, Or

Despairing Quotations

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
John L. Lewis

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
Claude Chabrol

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
Nellie Bly

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
Magnus Magnusson

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.
Lynette Fromme

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean

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Despairing Translations

despairing in German is verzweifelnd
despairing in Norwegian is fortvilet

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