#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?"

"Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.."

"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."

"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."

"I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?"

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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"

"...stooping very low, He engraves with careHis Name, indelible, upon our dust;And from the ashes of our self-despair,Kindles a flame of hope and humble trust.He seeks no second site on which to build,But on the old foundation, stone by stone,Cementing sad experience with grace,Fashions a stronger temple of His own."

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

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

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

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

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

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