Despair Quote by Alain de Botton

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

— Mark Waid

False hope is worse than despair.

— Jonathan Kozol

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

— Rohinton Mistry

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

— Richard Asher

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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— Jerome Groopman

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is…

— Colum McCann

“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Despair demands less of us, it’s more predictable, and in a sad way safer. Authentic hope requires clarity—seeing the troubles in this world—and imagination,…

— Rebecca Solnit

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

— Thomas Merton

It is better to die in hope than live in despair.

— Yuna