#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."

"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."

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

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

"Despair is a free man--hope isa slave."

"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."

"For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives."

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

"Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew 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."

"Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair."

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

"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."

"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."

"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?"

"Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change."

"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."