Quotes About Despair

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

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

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

False hope is worse than despair.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Where there's dope, there's hope!

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

Without Christ there is no hope.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?