(270 quotes found)
“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
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
“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
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
Oscar Wilde
“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”
“He who has never hoped can never despair”
George Bernard Shaw
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Woody Allen
