All 48 Uses of
despair
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Must one despair?†
Chpt 2
- There could be no more terrible despair, at least for a Russian criminal, for Russian criminals still have faith.†
Chpt 2
- Though, who knows, perhaps then a fearful thing would happen, perhaps the despairing heart of the criminal would lose its faith and then what would become of him?†
Chpt 2
- And so the criminal is no longer conscious of being a member of the Church and sinks into despair.†
Chpt 2
- But the martyr likes sometimes to divert himself with his despair, as it were driven to it by despair itself.†
Chpt 2
- But the martyr likes sometimes to divert himself with his despair, as it were driven to it by despair itself.†
Chpt 2
- Meanwhile, in your despair, you, too, divert yourself with magazine articles, and discussions in society, though you don't believe your own arguments, and with an aching heart mock at them inwardly….†
Chpt 2
- Don't worry yourself to death with despair."†
Chpt 3
- Do you know the meaning of despair, Alexey?†
Chpt 3
- He sees my despair.†
Chpt 3
- He felt something bordering upon despair, which he had never known till then.†
Chpt 3
- He found her then in despair, in agony, deserted by the man she loved.†
Chpt 3
- I've asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is till I am thirty, and then I shall lose it of myself, I fancy.†
Chpt 5
- And I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in my emotion.†
Chpt 5
- I've led the conversation to my despair, and the more stupidly I have presented it, the better for me."†
Chpt 5
- They will say this in despair, and their utterance will be a blasphemy which will make them more unhappy still, for man's nature cannot bear blasphemy, and in the end always avenges it on itself.†
Chpt 5
- Strange to say, though one would have supposed there was nothing left for him but despair—for what chance had he, with nothing in the world, to raise such a sum?†
Chpt 8
- The idea suddenly dawned on his despairing mind.†
Chpt 8
- And in his despair he was on the point of attacking the sleeping man again, but stopped short at once, realizing the uselessness of his efforts.†
Chpt 8
- "What terrible tragedies real life contrives for people," said Mitya, in complete despair.†
Chpt 8
- With a gesture of despair Mitya agreed.†
Chpt 8
- He roused him with a sort of ferocity, pulled at him, pushed him, even beat him; but after five minutes of vain exertions, he returned to his bench in helpless despair, and sat down.†
Chpt 8
- "I assure you you're mistaken," cried Mitya, wringing his hands in despair.†
Chpt 8
- What despair!†
Chpt 8 *
- I have come in despair …. in the last gasp of despair, to beg you to lend me the sum of three thousand, a loan, but on safe, most safe security, madam, with the most trustworthy guarantees!†
Chpt 8
- I have come in despair …. in the last gasp of despair, to beg you to lend me the sum of three thousand, a loan, but on safe, most safe security, madam, with the most trustworthy guarantees!†
Chpt 8
- He felt that miserably, and the thought of it sank into his heart with despair.†
Chpt 8
- "You do that, panie," said Mitya, recognizing with despair that all was over, "because you hope to make more out of Grushenka?†
Chpt 8
- At last, when he described his despair and told them how, when he left Madame Hohlakov's, he thought that he'd "get three thousand if he had to murder some one to do it," they stopped him again and noted down that he had "meant to murder some one."†
Chpt 9
- In despair he hid his face in his hands.†
Chpt 9
- His face now expressed complete, hopeless despair, and he sat mute and passive as though hardly conscious of what was happening.†
Chpt 9
- What can men be after this?" he exclaimed incoherently, in bitter despondency, almost despair.†
Chpt 9
- But alas! he grew very slowly, and this sometimes reduced him almost to despair.†
Chpt 10
- "Your Excellency, your Excellency …. is it possible?" he began, but could not go on and clasped his hands in despair.†
Chpt 10
- Such distrustfulness in Mitya, such lack of confidence even to him, to Alyosha—all this suddenly opened before Alyosha an unsuspected depth of hopeless grief and despair in the soul of his unhappy brother.†
Chpt 11
- Ivan exclaimed almost in despair.†
Chpt 11
- In despair I wrote to Count Mattei in Milan.†
Chpt 11
- 'Holy father, that's no comfort,' cried the despairing marquis.†
Chpt 11
- He sank back on his seat, wringing his hands in despair.†
Chpt 12
- He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the…†
Chpt 12
- Here I must mention that Smerdyakov, oppressed by terror and despair of a sort, had felt during those last few days that one of the fits from which he had suffered before at moments of strain, might be coming upon him again.†
Chpt 12
- Here we see in excess a love of effect, a romantic despair and sentimentality, and the wild recklessness of the Karamazovs.†
Chpt 12
- What's more, justice and punishment on earth positively alleviate the punishment of nature and are, indeed, essential to the soul of the criminal at such moments, as its salvation from despair.†
Chpt 12
- These two questions became so acute that they drove him at last to despair.†
Chpt 12
- But, excuse me, conscience implies penitence, and the suicide may not have felt penitence, but only despair.†
Chpt 12
- Despair and penitence are two very different things.†
Chpt 12
- Despair may be vindictive and irreconcilable, and the suicide, laying his hands on himself, may well have felt redoubled hatred for those whom he had envied all his life.†
Chpt 12
- At last the captain made a gesture of despair as though to say, "Take him where you will."†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)