“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Tears, idle tears,/I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair,/ Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,/ In looking on the happy autumn fields,/ And thinking of the days that are no more.”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
Rollo May
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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”
Diane de Pointiers
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
George Bernard Shaw
