Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

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

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

'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.

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

'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.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

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

I'm never going to run this again.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

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.

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

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