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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 (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises
  • 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.'

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

    Heart   Men   Practice  
    Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”
  • While there's life, there is hope.

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

  • Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man. Independent of political influence - where people are free - it reflects truthfully life and events, allows us to share in the hopes and despair of others, and illuminates political and social conditions. We become the eye-witnesses of the humanity and inhumanity of mankind . . .

    Helmut Gernsheim (1962). “Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960”, p.229, Courier Corporation
  • How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

    Dark   Sea   Sky  
  • (Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

    Country   Heart   Despair  
    Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.134, Faber & Faber
  • Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

    Cheer   Struggle   Gay  
    "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.
  • If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

    Hope   Despair   Path  
  • While there's life, there's hope.

    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”
  • 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.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • 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.

  • Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at see, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us. Catastrophe has become art; but this is no reducing process. It is freeing, enlarging, explaining. Catastrophe has become art: that is, after all, what it is for.

    Art   Ambition   Dark  
    Julian Barnes (2010). “A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters”, p.137, Random House
  • What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

    Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.82, Bright Skylark Book Products
  • ...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.

    Balance   Despair   Use  
    Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage
  • But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

    Hope   Pain   Live Life  
    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics
  • It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

    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
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

    Hope   Despair   Cry  
  • 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 (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
  • Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

    Flower   Compassion   Sea  
    Henryk Sienkiewicz (1912). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.138, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

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

    Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art
  • 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 (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA
  • He who has never hoped can never despair

    Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
  • Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber
  • We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyrus Hamlin (1987). “Verse Plays and Epic”, p.107, Princeton University Press
  • You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

    Balance   Despair   Fine  
    Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage
  • Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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