- published: 04 Mar 2013
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Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Despair is the twin sister of Desire. She is squat, flabby and pale-skinned, with black hair, gray eyes, and pointed teeth. Her voice is little more than a whisper, and she has no odor, but her shadow smells musky and pungent, like the skin of a snake. She does not wear clothes. On a finger of her left hand she wears a ring with a hook attached to it, with which she habitually carves her flesh. The hook is her sigil in the galleries of the other characters. Her realm is a gray space in which floats a white fog and countless mirrors, which are connected to mirrors in the human world, through which she looks on those who are in despair. The only other inhabitants of her realm are her pet rats.
Despair sometimes acts together with Desire when they are plotting against the elder Endless, most notably when Despair takes on a challenge with Morpheus over the life of Joshua Abraham Norton, seemingly at Desire's bidding. She is less distanced from the family than Desire, though, and seems to have some feeling at least for Delirium, and also seems to miss Destruction so much that she is able to manipulate Dream into feeling guilty over Destruction's abandoning of his duty. She does not say much, and consequently appears brusque, but her speech at Morpheus' wake in The Wake reveals her sympathy and feeling for him.
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Genres: Drama,Living in Torment
Praying for the End
An end to the Agony
Cannot stand the Pain
Time is running out
Life is near the end
Yesterday's beyond my reach
Tomorrow Awaits my Death
Existence without reason
Disdain for all that's alive
Remembering the days of laughter
Realizing it was a Lie
Don't dwell in the past
Look to the Future
For the solution
That has to come
Nothing makes sense anymore
Living in complete confusion
Death is the only Constant
And the only solution
I'm losing faith in all I know
Nothing to ease the suffering
Only hope is Death's forgiveness
To guide me from Despair
Blood on my hands
Flowing from my veins
Death fills my last hours
Awaiting the Final Gift
Eternal Suffering
Crying out in Death
Condemned existence
At the Revelation of Death
Terror from the Grave
Never again to rise
Eternity of Darkness
Forever to fill my eyes
Misery of life
Grows nearer to Death
Never again to feel the Pain