Photograph by Mabelyn Arteaga
Model: Jenny Gibney

DESPAIR

Me miserable! which way shall I fly
infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
John Milton - Paradise Lost

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
John Boyle O'Reilly - Promotheus

I am gone into the fields,
To take what this sweet hour yields -
Reflection, you may come tomorrow,
Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. -
You with the unpaid bill, Despair -
You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care -
I will pay you in the grave.
Percy Bysshe Shelley