My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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.
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.
Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change.
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing
Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure’s all you’ve known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go