Balance Quote by René Guénon

“I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual despite of it...”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is…

— Neal Shusterman

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope;…

— Vaclav Havel

“If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for you everything is lost, eternity does not acknowledge…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.”

— Peter Kreeft

“I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will…

— Celeste Bradley

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”

— Patricia Dsouza

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at the end…

— Marcel Proust

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward…

— Og Mandino

“There are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you’ve achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials…

— Franz Kafka