"Despond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his enfeebled state, but he certainly did not seem to trouble himself much about the future. "I feel as if I should pull through now," he said, once. "I only wanted a helping hand to lift me out of the slough of despond. When I am a bit stronger, doctor, I must paint a pot-boiler or two," and Marcus had ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... to be done, Colonel?' says he. 'I'm in the slough of despond, up to the very chin. A miry and ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott
... me," he confided to his friend Bob Wilson one evening as during his transit through a particularly dismal slough of despond they in company were busily engaged in blazing the trail with empty bottles; "One such as I, a man of thirty and of good health, without a dollar or the prospect of a dollar, an income or the prospect ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... replies, though she trembles with fear, For she lives all alone and no neighbours are near; But she says to herself, when she's like to despond, That the boys are at work ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson
... rouse her mother from her slough of despond, as she had often done in the old days. So she said: "Mother, you don't want to spoil this moment for me, do you? Why, I'm back with you again! Come, now, and we'll take in my boxes and unpack them. I've brought provisions ...
— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof
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