A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
Louis Finkelstein

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

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.
Robin Gibb

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
Flannery O'Connor

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.
Albert Camus

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Elie Wiesel

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Robert Frank

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
Theodor Adorno

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry

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

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond De Goncourt

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
Emile Lahud