“Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope”
Bernard Berenson
“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
“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
“It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding”
Elton John
