“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”
“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.”
“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”
“.....joy runs deeper than despair.”
“The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.”