#Despair

"My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything."

"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."

"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."

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

"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.."

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

"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

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

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

"Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."

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

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

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

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

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."

"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."

"...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."

"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?"

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

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