RuPaul Quotes

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

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

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

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

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.

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

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

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

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

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

There's no saving me.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

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

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

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.