#Despair

"Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair."

"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."

"You can actually create the life you want. It all depends on how daring you desire it."

"Is there any good news?' Tesla said.Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?"

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

"When all else is lost, the future still remains."

"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."

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

"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."

"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."

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

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

"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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