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• The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Love, Girl, Real

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Training, Important, Questioning

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Pain, People, World

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

  Damian Kulash

  People, Video, Attention

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• The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

  Margaret of Valois

  Cutting, Doe, Suitors

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• Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is gray, For I have lost the race I never ran. A rathe December blights my lagging May: And still I am a child, though I be old Time is my debtor for my days untold.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sweet, Children, Sleep

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.13

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• There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

  Emma Goldman

  Vote, Right To Vote

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.121, 谷月社

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• When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

  Zell Miller

  God, Faith, Hope

  Zell Miller (1998). “Listen to this Voice: Selected Speeches of Governor Zell Miller”

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• There is a new codeword going round school. DFS. It means 'desperate for sex.' It sounds like you are talking about the furniture shop. For the record, I'm certainly DFS. In fact I am permanently shopping in DFS with no hope of getting out of the store.

  Rae Earl

  Sex, School, Mean

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• The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Hurt, Pain, Animal

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• I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.

  Patch Adams

  Thinking, Compassion, Government

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• Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.

  Chris Howard

  Needs, Pins, Stills

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• The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

  Lee Roberson

  Victory, Despair, Way

  Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.41, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices.

  Samuel Johnson

  Passion, Men, Indulge In

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.283

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• Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Art, Focus, Despair

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• We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

  Tommy Douglas

  Dream, People, Vision

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

  Peter Levi

  Spheres, Privilege, Action

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• If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

  Winston Churchill

  Attitude, Mistake, Improvement

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• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Solitude, Bitterness, Pardon

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• Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

  Megan Chance

  Understanding, Addresses, Logic

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• I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Night, People

  "Killer Mike addresses Michael Brown shooting on CNN" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2014.

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• There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Path, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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