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Despair is an easy thing to fall into. It's the opposite of hope, the dark side of dreams. So it's particularly easy for a dreamer to fall into it. It is, in a way, the other side of their own nature. What they feel when the real world isn't as deep, true, beautiful, or real as the world of their hopes or fantasies.
One quote always returns to me in those times, though, and I've found it a help against giving into such depression and despair:
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence [1888-1935]
Hope remains. Hope always remains.
One quote always returns to me in those times, though, and I've found it a help against giving into such depression and despair:
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T.E. Lawrence [1888-1935]
Hope remains. Hope always remains.
