Anohni Quotes

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

'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.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

Pathetic

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

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

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

I'm not optimistic.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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

Regret leads to negativity, and negativity kills creativity.