“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.” KnowsMenActingRightsHe ManDespairOptimismRejoiceCountingExpect Nothing Book:The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre Source: The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre
“Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.” MenJesusChristDarknessVirtueDespairJesus ChristMiseryVices Book:Thoughts Source: Thoughts
“It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.” MenDiesDespairTeethNurseAntagonismFollow Up Author:Alfred the Great
“The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.” MenDiesEconomyDangerHe ManCircumstancesDespairLive ByItalianItalian Proverb Author:Joseph Addison
“I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.” MenLifeHeartHas BeensUsePainDesireNamesDarkBearsLoversDespairPraiseFilledSilentCalmDearStreamsCheatAstonishmentSplendourPerplexed Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)