Garet Garrett Quotes

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

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

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

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

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.

You should despair and run away.

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.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

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

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

'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.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

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.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

Dead men have no victory.

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 am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice