Despond

D.H. Hill's division was at White Oak Swamp Creek, a slough, and one of "despond" to us, draining to the Chickahominy. ❋ Unknown (1879)

With all its beauty and comfort it would become to him almost inevitably a slough, both of "despond" and of dissipation -- dissipation of the worst and most hopeless kind, wherein the victim's ruling motive is to get rid of self. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

It can be overdone, and it's nice to take a vacation from it now and then, either by sinking into your own private slough of despond or by finding a bar full of kindred dour spirits and share complaints or by visiting New York City or by just kicking a mime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manchester had its grand London outing on Saturday, 64,000 City and United fans paying £30-£60 per ticket to help the Football Association with its Wembley debts, Sheikh Mansour's City overcoming the Glazers' United in that gripping drama of delight and despond. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He saved four break points in the ninth game but could not find a winning rhythm as the defending champion had to do little more than wait for him to make mistakes - and, sure enough, he hit a forehand way long from deep to go 5-2 down, sinking further into despond. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Daylight the centre of it and the animating spark, with quip and jest and rough merriment rousing them out of the slough of despond in which he had found them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From this slough of despond, James ascended to become a central figure in the canon of American and English literature. ❋ Joseph Epstein (2012)

Even though my health isn't great, he's making sure I don't descend into a slough of despond by demanding we play a bit each day. ❋ Karenmiller (2009)

If you are in that job-hunting slough of despond, I welcome you to log on to OurPrayer.org and let your need be known. ❋ Rick Hamlin (2011)

I descended into my slough of despond, I never dreamed of turning to John Barleycorn for a helping hand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But while I was discovering this one last tie to bind me to life, in my extremity, in the depths of despond, walking in the valley of the shadow, my ears were deaf to John Barleycorn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the despond deepens, some News Corp shareholders would like a more ordinary, conventional company to invest in. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But then I tumbled back into my slough of despond when the saleswoman offered a prediction: "Once you go to the step of purchasing one," she said, based on several years 'experience at the store, "it won't be your last pair." ❋ Unknown (2010)

One thing that worked in the speech was his drawing a straight line between the vast monetary cost of the war and the economic slough of despond in which we're mired. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"One thing that worked in the speech was his drawing a straight line between the vast monetary cost of the war and the economic slough of despond in which we're mired." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But while this post sounds so ... negative (or at least blah/slough of despond/etc.) things're actually fine, just unexciting. ❋ Desayunoencama (2008)

The screeches of her eight-year-old daughter Rachel roused her from her self-pitying “slough of despond.” ❋ Susan Fales-Hill (2010)

Murray's refusal to sink into despond will not satisfy those critics who thought his body language shouted resignation towards the end of his disappointing defeat by Berdych, the Czech who beat him twice as a teenager and who himself wondered how much the Scot really wanted to be there when the rain and darkness descended on Court Suzanne Lenglen to interrupt their stuttering match. ❋ Unknown (2010)