“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
“There were moments of loss of hope and despair. However, reason and mutual accommodation prevailed in the end,”
Hosni Mubarak
“The moment you lose hope, the only thing left in your hands is despair”
Marie Muhammad
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?”
Kahlil Gibran
“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
