Lauren Kate Quotes

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

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

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

I don't believe in happy endings.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

The worse that could happen has already happened to me.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

We must do without hope.

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

Happiness is not the portion of man.