Despair Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

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

— Warren G. Bennis

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet…

— Samuel Johnson

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

“My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors…

— Benjamin Wood

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope.

— Neil Gaiman

In all things it is better to hope than to despair

— Anonymous

“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

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it…

— John Berger

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hopes are dreams of those who are awake

— Anonymous