Hope And Despair Quotes

• If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

  Robert Breault

  Hope, Despair, Path

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• Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

  Martin Luther

  Political, Despair, Mountain

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• 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

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

  Alain de Botton

  Differences, Despair, Different

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

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• It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hope, Doubt, Despair

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who has never hoped can never despair

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Hope, Expectations

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

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

  George Eliot

  Hope, Pain, Live Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Despair, All Things

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Hope, Suffering, Despair

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hope, Latin, Life Is Short

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• The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Hope, Despair, Life Journey

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

  Victor Hugo

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Despair

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Sadness, Learning

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.316, Xist Publishing

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• Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Life And Death, Decision, Luck

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Slumps, Done

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• ...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Balance, Despair, Use

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

  Mason Cooley

  Hope, Despair, Cry

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Hope, Latin

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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

  Rohinton Mistry

  Balance, Despair, Fine

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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