Despair Quote by Robert Breault

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

— Gene Tierney

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

— Warren G. Bennis

“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 can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

— William Walsh

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

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

— Rick Yancey

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

— Rohinton Mistry

The path to joy leads through despair.

— Alexander Lowen

A world without hope, but no despair

— Henry Miller

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

— Elie Wiesel

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

— Anonymous