Top 1200 Hope And Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

?It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

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

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

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

I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both.

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what we are now seeing. So, yes, I'm very optimistic, but anyone who works on the climate crisis has an internal struggle between hope and despair. I won't deny that, but hope has always prevailed in my outlook.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

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

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

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

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

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

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

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

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

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

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

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

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

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

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.