#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?"

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

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

"You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance."

"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."

"I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay,and He has set my feet upon a ROCK and He established my steps, and He has given me a a new song even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord...the first 3 lines of an ancient Hebrew song Psalm 40:1-3"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of manIn me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be."