Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

Hope keeps you alive.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.