Despair Quote by George Monbiot

“Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.”

— LeeAnn Taylor

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

— Robert Breault

A world without hope, but no despair

— Henry Miller

“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

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to…

— Julian Barnes

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!

— Sara Shepard

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

— Anonymous

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet…

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— George Eliot

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

— Jeffrey Fry

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous