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Rather than fall deeper into a hole of self-despair, I guess I saw that I had to find a way out to survive.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2015

There were, Chief Boyce said, “other postings as well, of self-despair, of anger at himself and where his life is right now.”

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2014

Add self-despair and the passion of self-crucifixion to this, and obedience becomes an ascetic sacrifice, agreeable quite irrespective of whatever prudential uses it might have.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

Wherever, and only where, there are the sackcloth and ashes of self-despair there will be the crown of gold of an answering faith.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

At last the soul is reduced to utter self-despair.

From Spiritual Torrents by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte