Choices Quote by T. S. Eliot

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The…

— Anonymous

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but…

— Honore de Balzac

False hope is worse than despair.

— Jonathan Kozol

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

— Bill Vaughan

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

— Gene Tierney

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

— Jennifer Donnelly

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

— George Eliot

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous

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

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

— Warren G. Bennis

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

Despair exists only when there is hope.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti