“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
Robert Frank
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“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
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits”
William Shakespeare
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
Pope John Paul II
