Despair Hope Quotes

In the void of your absence,
Looking at your empty chair,
I always cherished,
A dream, an illusion,
Someone who is mine,
Is not present here,
Your arrival,
Will wake me up,
And break my illusions ~ Bhumika Singh

(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

Despair is a free man - hope is
a slave. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it. ~ Susan Minot

Isn't that how the world is going to change? By each of us putting ourselves out there, facing despair, and taking care of one another? ~ Corey Wheeland

Sometimes I can't see the sun. ~ Randolph Randy Camp

The blacker the prospects and the harder it was to hope, the more firmly they grasped at hope when it flickered forth. ~ Marie Bregendahl

A human being can only endure so much. This life exceeds the limit! ~ Gary McDougall

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair. ~ Nadezhda Mandelstam

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

Before the crisis, my life moved along like a well-planned play. I showed up and acted my part while the script directed the flow. The devastation demanded I grieve while the play of my life continued around me. I wished I could stop the spinning stage long enough to catch my breath. ~ Shauna L. Hoey

You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn.. ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

What means the fact
which is so common, so universal
that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair? ~ Henry David Thoreau

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day. ~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi

When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs. ~ Andrew Peterson

I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it... ~ Banana Yoshimoto

When everything seems too far away from you, don't despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. ~ Warren G. Bennis

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. ~ James Hillman

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises. ~ Juliet Marillier

Despair is a bad thing, friend. The world moves on through hope. We will be home soon. You will feel better then." But the darkness around him embraced him like stormy waves do a drowning man. He felt he was sinking in the sea of hopelessness. ~ Mukta Singh-Zocchi

Despair wishes their hope diminishes. ~ Sherina Gandia

Telegraph Road
A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times, then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river ...
And my radio says tonight it's gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow ...
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
Yes and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed
We're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road
You know I'd soo ~ Mark Knopfler

Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. ~ Gavin Esler

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun. ~ Marty Rubin

So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another I'm sorry. ~ Liane Moriarty

Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope. ~ Paul Bamikole

In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings. ~ Khaled Hosseini

NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man
In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins

Let your heart be an infant of hope not an adult of despair. ~ Debasish Mridha

Only God can save every soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am the great comforter. I bring you solace, understanding, and hope. In times of despair, hope is what you have abandoned. ~ Julia Cameron

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice ... even when all seems dark around us. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care. ~ S. Jae-Jones

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet? ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hope is the confidence of brighter tomorrows. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe me, there is no one more dangerous than one whose hopes have turned to despair. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

Some stories end in despair, some begin there ~ Marty Rubin

You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone ~ Linkin Park

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. ~ Francis Of Assisi

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing ~ Raymond Williams

I argue against purism not because I want a devastated world, the Mordor of industrial capitalism emerging as from a closely aligned alternate universe through our floating islands of plastic gradually breaking down into microbeads consumed by the scant marine life left alive after generations of overfishing, bottom scraping, and coral reef–killing ocean acidification; our human-caused, place-devastating elevated sea levels; our earth-shaking, water poisoning fracking; our toxic lakes made of the externalities of rare-earth mineral production for so-called advanced electronics; our soul-and-life
destroying prisons; our oil spills; our children playing with bits of dirty bombs; our white phosphorus; our generations of trauma held in the body; our cancers; and I could go on. I argue against purism because it is one bad but common approach to devastation in all its forms. It is a common approach for anyone who attempts to meet and control a complex situation that is fundamentally outside our control. It is a bad approach because it shuts down precisely the field of possibility that might allow us to take better collective action against the destruction of the world in all its strange, delightful, impure frolic. Purism is a de-collectivizing, de-mobilizing, paradoxical politics
of despair. This world deserves better. ~ Alexis Shotwell

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right. ~ Ryan Winfield

My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine

But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything. ~ Sam Taylor

There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. ~ Herman Melville

The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair ~ Rohinton Mistry

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity. ~ Alessandra Torre

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

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

despair

sometimes
hope leads us on
teases us with
its shiny baubles
its stunning horizons

it can carry us over
the roiling turmoil
the raging storm
then as easily
with its cornucopia of lies
drop us into the waves

to flounder against its loss ~ Barry DeCarli

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair. ~ Eraldo Banovac

What a blessed bliss to be alive? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. ~ Joanne Greenberg

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. ~ Rick Yancey

Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys. ~ Dan Groat

Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life. ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt,
Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair,
Wearied of every temple we have built,
Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer,
For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high:
One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die. ~ Oscar Wilde

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. ~ Robert Fripp

Hope is the supernatural grace of God for
survival of hard times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. ~ Thomas Merton

Sometimes the hole of despair is just too deep. Hope cannot reach that low, or maybe a person cannot hold on to the edge of Hope from inside the crater of despair. ~ Jamie West Zumwalt

The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I'd almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope's finest expression. In hope's loss, however, is the greatest despair. ~ Steven L. Peck

Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair. ~ John Milton

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root. ~ Nora Roberts

Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing. ~ Victor Hugo

Quite the opposite actually. I think having hope is one of the most important things you can do. Once you let go of it, despair takes over. Despair will kill you quicker than hope ever could. So if you're going to hold onto something...I'm glad it's that. ~ Julie Johnson

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

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

It's been days now that you did not reply,
Have started to lose hope again,
So writing again..
Not for the reply,
But a hope,
A hope for your reply ~ Bhumika Singh

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair. ~ Richard D. Sagor

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive ~ Greg Van Eekhout

Although secular fundamentalist "progressives" might believe in a future "golden age," such an age does not exist. The future that they herald is merely one of gathering gloom and ever darkening clouds. This fate has ever been so for those who proclaim their "Pride." They have nothing to expect in the future but their fall.
As for the Christian, he has nothing to fear but his falling into the pride of despair. If he avoids becoming despondent and retains his humility, he will receive the gift of hope which is its fruit. Where there is hope there is the Way, the Truth and the Life. ~ Joseph Pearce

One act of random kindness is enough to transform despair into hope. ~ Charles F. Glassman

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. ~ Charlotte Bronte

If you response to every demand, you will be in despair. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, 'This is how I will learn to live again'. ~ Kate Scelsa

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing. ~ Stefan Molyneux

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope! ~ Greg Keyes

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is confidence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am most valuable bill in his wallet,
But a torn bill… ~ Bhumika Singh

I can see all your cracks and your darkness and your flaws and I fall in love with it all. And I hope you can fall in love with everything that I am, all that lurks in my dark, all that shines in my light. I want you to love every little piece of me, because it all belongs to you. ~ Karina Halle

In the eyes of God, we're all perfect and we all have unlimited capacity to express brilliantly. I say unlimited capacity rather than unlimited potential because potential can be a dangerous concept. We can use it to tyrannize ourselves, to live in the future instead of the present, to set ourselves up for despair. We're constantly measuring ourselves against what we think we could be, rather than what we are. Potential is a concept which can bind us to personal powerlessness Focus on human potential becomes impotent without a focus on human capacity. Capacity is expressed in the present, it is immediate, the key to it lies not in what we have inside of us, but rather in what we are willing to own that we have inside of us. There's no point in waiting until we're perfect at what we do, or enlightened masters, or PhDs in life, before opening ourselves to what we're capable of doing now. Of course we're not as good today as we'll be tomorrow, but how will we ever get tomorrow's promise without making some sort of move today? ~ Marianne Williamson

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out. ~ Mark Fuhrman

Fear can be strong, but hope is even stronger. ~ Sadie Crase

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality. ~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
-Richard ~ Douglas Coupland

I am not moved to love Thee, 0 my Lord,
By any longing for Thy Promised Land;
Nor by the fear of hell am I unmanned
To cease from my transgressing deed or word.
Tis Thou Thyself dost move me, - Thy blood poured
Upon the cross from nailed foot and hand;
And all the wounds that did Thy body brand;
And all Thy shame and bitter death's award.

Yea, to Thy heart am I so deeply stirred
That I would love Thee were no heaven on high, -
That I would fear, were hell a tale absurd!
Such my desire, all questioning grows vain;
Though hope deny me hope I still should sigh,
And as ray love is now, it should remain.

(To Christ Crucified) ~ Thomas Walsh

I know it isn't right to put the blame easily on anyone. But, won't you feel sad if you know that those people are the reasons of your misery? Those people whom you never expected to be like this. But still, i hope that someday i will say thanks to you i didn't get there so i can be as great and successful as i am right now ~ Amalia Azizah

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself. ~ Drew Karpyshyn

The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called ... 'friends. ~ Jose N Harris

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle. ~ Joseph Wiseman

Hope you find yourself HOME...if not, where did LOVE go??? ~ J.B. AC

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle