Despair Quote by Leonard Nimoy

Love is hope when reason despairs.

— Jack Hyles

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a…

— Cornel West

Love can hope where reason would despair.

— George Lyttelton

Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to live without…

— Samurai Champloo

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

— Warren G. Bennis

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

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“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

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

— Rohinton Mistry

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

— Alexandre Dumas

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti