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Abandon hope early and avoid the rush.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here. --Dante Alighieri, "The Inferno"
Angels show themselves to you when you least expect it--often when all hope is lost.
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. --Ambrose Birce
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Despair is a mental state which exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. --Vauvenargues
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. --Khalil Gibran
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope. -- A. J. Cronin
Hope is the denial of reality.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. --Jane Kerr
I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference.
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. --Calvin
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. --Eric Bentley
If You Pass This Point You Will Most Certainly Die. --sign on birth canal
Indifference is evil's body-guard. Without it, evil would have to do a much better job of hiding.
Just give hope a chance to float up, and it will. --"Hope Floats"
Life begins on the other side of despair. --Jean Paul Sartre
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. --Libbie Fudim
No man is an island, save I, eroded by this sea of despair. --ThunderFoot
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it. --Harvey Milk
The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope. --A. A. Attanasio, "The Dragon and the Unicorn"
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. --John Bunyan
Whaddaya want from me, I'm Eastern European in ancestry, we're born depressed. --jms
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. --Dylan Thomas
While there is life there is hope. --Cicero
Why should we strive, with cynic frown/ to knock their fairy castles down? --Eliza Cook
Yeah sure. Make her understand that happiness doesn't exist, that paradise doesn't exist, that
there's nothing to win or lose, and that essentially you can't change anything. And if you think that
despair is all that's left after that, well, you're wrong again, because despair is an illusion too. All you can do is go to bed at night and get up in the morning, with a smile on your lips, if possible. And you can think whatever you want -- it only complicates matters and doesn't change a thing. --Philippe Djian, "Betty Blue"
