“When you have lost hope, you lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.”

“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”

“And on this terrible day of mourning, it's hard to imagine that a time will come when life at Virginia Tech will return to normal. But such a day will come. And when it does, you will always remember the friends and teachers who were lost yesterday, and the time you shared with them, and the lives they hoped to lead. May God bless you. May God bless and keep the souls of the lost. And may His love touch all those who suffer and grieve.”

“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”

“And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart,
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders.
So, don’t give up on love
when it seems that all is lost,
for there is always hope
if we’re prepared to pay the cost”

“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

“In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.”

“The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

When you take your pill
it's like a mine disaster.
I think of all the people
lost inside you.”