Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

When I was 11 years old, I got very sick and slipped into a vegetative state for four years and was pretty much written off as a lost cause.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.