Finding Hope in Despair Quotes

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.