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Quotes About Despair

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
~ Nelson Mandela
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
~ John Milton
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
~ Franz Kafka
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
.....joy runs deeper than despair.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
~ Johann von Goethe
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
~ T. S. Eliot
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Despair exists only when there is hope.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
~ Wilfred Owen
It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.
~ Todd Snider
If the final decision for the salvation of fallen sinners were left in the hands of fallen sinners, we would despair all hope that anyone would be saved.
~ R. C. Sproul
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
~ A. J. Cronin
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~ Bernard Berenson
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
~ Elie Wiesel
Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
~ Seneca the Younger
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.
~ William Shakespeare