Jean-Jules Jusserand Quotes

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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

'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.

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

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

If any man wishes to exchange his life for mine, there is nothing that can prevent it.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

You should despair and run away.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

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.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

Despair ... is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

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

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.