Richard Bach Quotes

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

Dead men have no victory.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

There is no there there.