#Despair

"To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair."

"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."

"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."

"I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair."

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

"Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person."

"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"

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope."

"She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair."

"She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away."

"In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

"And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth,"I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!The Wrong shall fail,the Right prevail,With peace on earth, good-will to men!"

"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."

"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."

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."

"You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."