Jay Asher Quotes

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

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

'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.

Groan and forget it.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

You should despair and run away.

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

I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

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.

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.

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

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

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

All hope of remedy is considered vain

'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.