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.