"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
—Edmund Burke
Compare Cynicism Tropes, Sadness Tropes, Apathy Index. Contrast Hope Index.
Categories:
- Break the Believer
- Break the Cutie
- Break the Haughty
- Broken Bird
- Confidence Sabotage
- Darkest Hour
- Death by Despair
- Despair Event Horizon
- Despair Gambit
- Despair Speech
- Desperation Attack
- Driven to Suicide
- Dumb Struck
- Heroic BSoD
- Hope Crusher
- Hope Is Scary
- Hope Spot
- I Should Have Been Better
- Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!
- Madden Into Misanthropy
- Mangst
- My Greatest Failure
- Personal Horror
- Post-Historical Trauma
- Safety in Indifference
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!
- Stopped Caring
- Straw Angst
- Straw Nihilist
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
- Thousand-Yard Stare
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
