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

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

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.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

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.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.