It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it is possible to escape the clinches of despair; or would despair become the hunter and reclaim me as… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of… — Okieriete Onaodowan Copy Share Image
“they no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Despair, or folly?’ said Gandalf. ‘It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt.… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“We human beings glimpse lofty ideals, catch ourselves betraying them, and sink to suicidal despair--despair from which only the love of our… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres;… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image