Action is the antidote to despair.
?Joan Baez
More than any other time in history,
mankind faces a cross-roads.
One path leads to despair and utter
hopelessness. The other, to
total extinction. Let us pray we have
the wisdom to choose correctly.
?Woody Allen
Despair ruins some,
presumption many.
?Benjamin Franklin
When I despair, I remember that all
through history the way of truth and
love has always won. There have been
tyrants and murderers and for a time
they seem invincible but in the end,
they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
?Mahatma Gandhi
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination,
at least from despair. Everything considered,
work is less boring than amusing oneself.
?Charles Baudelaire
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.
?Graham Greene
But what we call our despair is often only the
painful eagerness of unfed hope.
?George Eliot
All my life I believed I knew something.
But then one strange day came when
I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.
And so words became void of meaning.
I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
?Ezra Pound
Because I remember, I despair.
Because I remember,
I have the duty to reject despair.
?Elie Wiesel
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.
?George Eliot
Despair is perfectly compatible with
a good dinner, I promise you.
?William M. Thackeray
