Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much…

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived…

— Margaret MacMillan

“I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.”

— Liza M. Wiemer

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some…

— Susan Minot

“Until we walk with despair, and still have hope, we will not know that our hope was not just hope in ourselves, in our…

— Richard Rohr

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope? You yourself must change it.

— Adrienne Rich

In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love…

— Robert Fripp

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise

— John Cleese

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything…

— Anonymous

“Be a light today for all in despair. In hope that if you should fall...they will light your way tomorrow!

— Timothy Pina

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

— John Cleese

“Yeah,” sighed Jane. “I suppose. But that’s the problem. I can cope with despair. But hope keeps fucking me up.”

— Adam Baker

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and…

— Lee Roberson

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”VII”

— Matthew Walker

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all through despair and hope, through faith and love. Rafiki

— The Lion King

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

— Boris Pasternak