Tad Williams Quotes

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

My God, it is all over.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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

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

'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 had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Groan and forget it.

Our string has run out. There is nothing more we can do.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

'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.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

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

You should despair and run away.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

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.