Victor Hugo Quotes

I think about giving up. I almost do.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

He who despairs is wrong.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.