The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life and the promise of future accomplishments.

What other people call dark and despairing I call funny.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder and its end is despair.

We've all had that fear that despair of losing someone or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is the more desire we have.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.

Comedy is an escape not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Now God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness comfort in despair.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure of disappointment of despair and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons or whether one wants to overturn them.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us what is our deepest need then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations except the revivified courage and resolution the result of sudden success after despair.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

It is often when night looks darkest it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East you just do the best you can.

Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief but of despair.

As the plane got closer to Miami I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger panic despair and helplessness.