Neal Shusterman Quotes

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

Hope dies last.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

It's still in my heart. I can do it.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

I never give up hope.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Keep your head up and be patient.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'