Sergei Polunin

In the beginning, I was very passionate about it, I loved it. It wasn't until I actually reached the top that I became despondent. I felt like I was betrayed, betrayed by my family, my school. I felt very angry about the whole thing. You spend 12 hours a day, dancing, and then what?

Will Poulter

I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.

English Actor

Scott Derrickson

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

American Director

Gus Van Sant

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Jack Layton

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

Canadian Politician

F. Murray Abraham

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

American Actor

Hilton Als

I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because I don't feel very happy about not learning.

American Writer

Euripides

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Greek Poet

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I know what it is like to experience terror, to feel despondent, to live in fear. I know how wearying and hopeless life can be sometimes.

Canadian Activist

Kin Hubbard

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

American Journalist

Despondent expresses a very strong feeling of hopelessness, more intense than just being sad or upset.

Intensity Matters

Use despondent to describe a temporary state of deep despair, not a person's general character.

Temporary State

Despondent is often used to describe someone's emotional appearance, observed through their behavior or expressions.

Non-physical Appearance

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 So this woman, this boy's mother installed this latrine in a few hours. Her entire life, she'd been using the banana field behind, but she installed the latrine in a few hours. It cost nothing. It's going to save that boy's life. So when I get despondent about the state of sanitation,

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 would have retained that posture from the juveniles of their ancestors in this case mass despondent so that's that's why one of the reasons for which understanding how dionysus grows actually really really important and when it came to the eggs i really like the story about the eggs

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 until your first child goes to college. So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into. We were despondent. So you can imagine, I mean again, the first few months were difficult,

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 weighs tons to be able to move that you have to be a powerful player and you have to have government connections follow the money it's basic basic law enforcement and in very rare cases is anybody doing it and it's easy to feel really despondent we are witnessing a

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 He asks the young man to consider a commander lying to his troops to boost their morale. Before long, Euthydemus is despondent. It seems that every answer leads to further problems, and perhaps he’s not quite sure what constitutes justice after all.

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 Battling tuberculosis in France and confronting the war's devastation as a resistance journalist, Camus grew despondent. He couldn’t fathom any meaning behind all this endless bloodshed and suffering. He if the world was meaningless,

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 despondent about his prospects for today I know that feeling that he can use his charm and exceedingly nice personality a

Despondent

Feeling or showing extreme discouragement or depression.

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