Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces the crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. I pray we have the wisdom to choose wisely.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ... It is the sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope ... Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair. Despair is for those who expect to live for ever. I no longer do.

One despairs of others so as not to despair too much of oneself.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I learned to love despair.

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that he is insufficient, or not just to his word; in vain hath he read the Scriptures, the world, and man.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.