H. G. Wells Quotes

Despair gives courage to a coward.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

I think about giving up. I almost do.

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

No one will ever feel sorry for me.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.