Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.
My only hope lies in my despair.
Never give in, never surrender, Never allow despair to overcome your spirit.
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. 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.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good. ' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.
It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.
People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.
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.
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.