“Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.”
A. Alvarez
“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
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
Oscar Wilde
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
