You were out of your mind with grief, came the voice again.

When my father died, going to work did much more for her than sitting with grief.

He was never quite sure how to deal with grief.

His eyes were red with grief, but when he looked at her, they turned cold.

She needed the time and help to come to terms with her grief.

He just wanted to be left alone with his grief.

Then he went back to be alone with his grief.

But you learn to live with grief, and find a way through it.

The mother and son ended their life in fire with grief.

"I got the feeling he wasn't exactly out of his mind with grief."

As the story goes, she was in a period of deep despair.

In every case, I was looking at the face of despair.

I had met one years ago and the look of despair in his eyes would never leave me.

Since last night I have a feeling of such despair.

But all the same I was almost in a state of despair.

The most important thing is not to drive these people to a situation of despair.

He went through a period of despair after his wife left him.

My mind seemed to be in a state of despair.

When he went down, it was with a sense of despair.

The scene they had found was one of total despair.

It was all I could do to keep him from despair.

Only those visits had kept her from total despair when the program produced no results.

But this is where the opera turns from despair to hope.

Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind.

Work was all that kept Gordon from despair, in the next days.

Her hope kept her from complete despair, but only just.

Another perspective, one in which an individual can find some measure of freedom from despair, is available for the person with religious "faith."

Maybe, he thought, it's from despair at having lost everything.

From despair itself he got a cold feeling of nothing to lose and decided to finish it.

And nothing remains to offer freedom from despair except the act of killing.

Each of us had a personal reason for despair, but we agreed on one thing.

But this was not the moment for remorse and despair.

It's almost cause for despair, until you realize that it means you'll have time to read them all again.

I was hoping for despair, but you can't have everything all at once.

But a positive test result should not be cause for despair.

Besides, the world has given me little real cause for despair.

He also fought down any movement that might have been taken for despair.

As Madison put it, the situation was too serious for despair.

And while that might not be a cause for despair, you could understand some of his point.

Here are some of the reasons for hope and despair.