Pastoral Resources

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.