Certain Quote by Steve Almond

“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

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.

— Todd Snider

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect…

— Jeremy Collier

“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 is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in…

— Thomas Merton

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

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

Despair is a natural emotion.

— Tim Kaine

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous