Rachel Caine Quotes

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.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

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

'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.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

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

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.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

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

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

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

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

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.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

It's better to accept destiny.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

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

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

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

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

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

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