(270 quotes found)
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”
Raymond Williams
“Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.”
David S. Muzzey
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom”
Anatole France
“There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.”
John Bunyan
“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”
William James
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven”
John Donne
“Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.”
William Hastie
“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.”
Max Jacob
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
Lenny Bruce
