#Despair

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

"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

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

"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.."

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

"It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it."

"Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied."

"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!"

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

"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, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted."

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

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