Edward Snowden Quotes

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

All hope of remedy is considered vain

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.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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

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

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

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

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cut the wrong man’s head off.

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.

The coming of ultimate failure we saw clearly enough, but the future beyond was a blank. The subject was naturally not a pleasant one, and by common consent it was always avoided in conversation, until at last we learned to avoid it in thought as well. We waited gloomily for the end, but did not care particularly to speculate upon the question when and how the end was to come.

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

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

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.

Life and hope must cease together.

You should despair and run away.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

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.

Abandon every hope, you who enter.