Bo Burnham Quotes

'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.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

'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.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

If you can't do it, give up!

Once you give up, you know you're done.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

You should despair and run away.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

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.

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

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

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

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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