James Hillman Quotes

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

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

We must do without hope.

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

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

'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.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Everyone wrote me off, including me.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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

After all, there is nothing but failure.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.