Top 100 Despair Hope Quotes
#1. HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice ... even when all seems dark around us.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#2. At the time of destruction and despair hope for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#3. I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
Thomas Merton
#4. In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
Juliet Marillier
#5. I am the great comforter. I bring you solace, understanding, and hope. In times of despair, hope is what you have abandoned.
Julia Cameron
#6. In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#7. We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire ... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about ... what it means to be a human being.
Ron Pope
#8. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O
Derek A. Olsen
#9. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.
Ford Madox Ford
#10. Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
John Milton
#11. We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
Francis Bacon
#12. 'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.
Robert Battle
#13. Alan McCluskey
Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.
Alan McCluskey
#14. Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.
Richard Asher
#16. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
Julian Barnes
#17. Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#18. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
David Mitchell
#20. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#21. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
James Hillman
#22. Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#23. Connor has always been light to her. Pure light and hope in the face of sorrow and despair.
Andrea Cremer
#24. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#25. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.
Peter S. Fogg
#26. You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
Lisa Gardner
#28. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
Aberjhani
#29. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
John Milton
#30. As you walk the thin line between despair and hope . . . I wonder what your voices will sound like when you scream.
Takaya Kagami
#31. For true humility is, in a way, a very real despair: despair of myself, in order that I may hope entirely in You.
Thomas Merton
#33. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.
Brian D. McLaren
#35. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#37. We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.
Agatha Christie
#38. I knew that I lived in a place where hope and a sense of possibility were as ephemeral as morning fog, but I did not see the despair at the heart of our drug use.
Jesmyn Ward
#39. We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.
Newt Gingrich
#40. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again
David Clement-Davies
#41. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.
Michael Lerner
#42. Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
Lu Xun
#43. Between hope and despair treads a life without love!
Manoj Vaz
#44. There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.
George Carlin
#45. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
#46. To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.
Hannah Senesh
#47. She could not see how much there was to live for, that she was young and that one could build anew upon the ashes of failure
Paul Gallico
#48. Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.
Joanne Greenberg
#52. When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would have surpassed their failure.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#54. Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
Robert Kennedy
#55. Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
Alain De Botton
#56. We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.
Woody Allen
#57. Because a man can only live with despair for so long before hope resurges.
Robert J. Crane
#58. Speechless During The Angriness, I Want To Commit Myself For Becoming A Self-Motivated And Determined Because Don't Hold To Anger, Hurt Or Pain. They Effect Your Spirit.
Avinash Advani
#59. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#60. To love is a dare,
when hope and despair,
are gates upon it hinges.
Lang Leav
#61. Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.
Marty Rubin
#62. despair, even when their practical fortunes were hopeful. How could they understand that the Romans could hope even when their fortunes were hopeless?
G.K. Chesterton
#64. A new star has been born and Vera's performance brings alive the desolate life of O'Neil's young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.
Rajiv Kapoor
#65. When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope.
Blaise Pascal
#66. In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that's their choice and their freedom. I won't judge them.
E.A.A. Wilson
#67. Jupiter was a chilly, dark and unfriendly tract of land in which no hope lingered, only despair. There she woke up in an oval dungeon.
J.M.K. Walkow
#68. Some stories end in despair, some begin there
Marty Rubin
#69. When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.
Margarita Engle
#70. My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Thomas Jefferson
#71. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair
George Monbiot
#72. It struck me tonight how music mirrors life. Fleeting ephemeral moments, made up of beauty, sadness, joy, hope and despair. Melodies which are written in both major and minor keys. Flowing and fleeting. You can't hold onto it, or keep it from changing. Our emotions possess the evanescence of a note.
Virginia Burges
#73. I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Harry Nilsson
#74. Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Raymond Carver
#75. And what would I do ? Part of me was immobile, stunned with despair, like those rats that lose hope in laboratory experiments and lie down in the maze to starve.
Donna Tartt
#76. Hope is not the thing with feathers. Hope is an anchor. What keeps you from floating away. Despair is weightless.
Matt Greene
#77. Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
Bell Hooks
#78. It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair.
K.W. Jeter
#79. I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.
Robert Byrd
#80. I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
Alexander Payne
#81. A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
Philip K. Dick
#82. The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.
Lee Roberson
#84. You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
Aidan Chambers
#85. With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
Roman Payne
#86. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
Nhat Hanh
#87. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.
Rachel L. Schade
#89. Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
Eric Van Lustbader
#90. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.
Debasish Mridha
#92. If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides them with real hope of happiness in the here and now, they will continue to grasp at religion's false hope of happiness in the hereafter.
Anonymous
#93. (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.
Lorrie Moore
#95. The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.
James Alan Gardner
#96. In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.
Libbie Hawker
#97. Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
D. Morgenstern
#98. Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.
Leonard Nimoy
#99. Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!
Timothy Pina
#100. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
Criss Jami
