Alexander Dubcek Quotes

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.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

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 is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

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

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

You can't. You just have to.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

You should despair and run away.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

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.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

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

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

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

For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!