Despairing Quotes

When asked if he had any memorable production memories from Star Trek: "(I had a letter) from a Las Vegas police sergeant. He wasn`t asking for anything, he just wrote and said how much the show meant to him, and that he loved his work but there were many times when it made him very low and very despairing about society. When that happens, I go home and watch The Next Generation and it restores my belief that the world will get better." (Sept/Oct 2006, Star Trek Magazine issue #1)

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

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.

Not so, not so, no load of woe Need bring despairing frown; For while we bear it, we can bear, Past that, we lay it down.

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.

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.

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

From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went before.

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