With his siblings Destiny, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Death, he is one of the Endless, presiding over the universe, but is as flawed and petty as any Greek god.
It tells the story of Dream, who is the god of dreams, and his siblings who are the gods of death, despair, desire, destiny, and other things that start with D. The comic tells stories set at different points in history that involved Dream as well as stories set in the present day, which is the early 90s in the comic.
The Endless will last as long as there's life in the universe because everything conscious dreams and everything living despairs, desires and dies.
You're just as likely to run into passages on abstract concepts—"desire," "despair"—as you are very concrete sex scenes.
Fear and frustration permeate the diary, but not despair, or desire for retribution.
A woman abandoned by her lover, left to grapple with feelings of betrayal, despair and desire for justice: who couldn't relate?
Although he was close to despair, "his desire to live was greater, he thought of his family and said that he wanted to live", Rodriguez said.
This has bred a popular flailing born of frustration and despair: the desire to tear down those structures which, all too many feel, have betrayed us.
Singing verses from amorous poetry by Sappho, the mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway gave voice to isolation, despair, longing and desire with penetrating clarity.
