The sins against hope are despair, as anticipated failure, and presumption, as anticipated fulfilment. In both these cases man seeks to break out of his pilgrim existence and have his life otherwise than from the hand of God.
Despair Quotes
What matters it to a blind man that his father could see?
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! (words inscribed over the gates of Hell.)
Listen, someone’s screaming in agony – fortunately I speak it fluently.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. (“Hamlet”)
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
