Top 100 Quotes About Despair And Hope
#1. As you walk the thin line between despair and hope . . . I wonder what your voices will sound like when you scream.
Takaya Kagami
#2. 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
#3. Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#4. You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!
Greg Keyes
#5. O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!
Not to believe, and yet too credulous:
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.
William Shakespeare
#6. It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
Elton John
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. '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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
David Mitchell
#14. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#15. 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
#16. Connor has always been light to her. Pure light and hope in the face of sorrow and despair.
Andrea Cremer
#17. 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
#18. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
Aberjhani
#19. 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
#20. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
Lu Xun
#28. Between hope and despair treads a life without love!
Manoj Vaz
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. To love is a dare,
when hope and despair,
are gates upon it hinges.
Lang Leav
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair
George Monbiot
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.
Raymond Carver
#47. 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
#48. Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
Bell Hooks
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
Alexander Payne
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
Aidan Chambers
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.
Debasish Mridha
#61. 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
#62. (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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!
Timothy Pina
#67. We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops
which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
William Peter Blatty
#69. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
Rebecca McNutt
#70. At the time of destruction and despair hope for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Hope is a projection of the imagination; so is despair. Despair all too readily embraces the ills it foresees; hope is an energy and arouses the mind to explore every possibility to combat them.
Thornton Wilder
#73. There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.
Rumi
#75. Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.
Margaret Laurence
#76. You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#77. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.
Paranjay Malkan
#78. Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.
Noorilhuda
#79. Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.
Cloe Madanes
#80. May all your tomorrows be sunny and bright ... filled with hope to conquer over all your despair.
Timothy Pina
#81. The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.
Rachel Joyce
#83. The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
Bill Vaughan
#84. We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.
Brennan Manning
#85. The one closest to the departed has to be the first one to step from despair to hope. Nobody else is allowed to jump ahead and shove open the door. That's the rule.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#86. DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom.
MORPHEUS: And what do I define, by this theory of yours.
DESTRUCTION: Reality, perhaps.
Neil Gaiman
#87. Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#88. My sister's looking off to the side so half her face is in shadow and her smile is neatly cut in half. It's like one of those Greek tragedy masks in a textbook that's half one idea and half the opposite. Light and dark. Hope and despair. Laughter and sadness. Trust and loneliness.
Haruki Murakami
#89. With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I'll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I'd rather live in a grim reality than a comfortable delusion.
Evan Grinde
#91. The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
Robert Peel
#92. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
#93. Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
Peter Kreeft
#94. Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!-RVM
R.v.m.
#95. Life is fragile and holds on by a thread. Remember all those in despair and say a prayer that they will have the hope to find the help that they need
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#96. A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
Ray Bradbury
#97. If you can reach down deep inside and grab on to the hope and courage we all have installed in us to move forward down the roads of life ... it will help you grow stronger each day overcoming all despair.
Timothy Pina
#98. We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
from Gentleman Rankers
Rudyard Kipling
#99. The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.
Pawan Mishra
#100. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone
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