“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

“The darkest part of the night precedes the dawn. So there is no need to despair for humanity in Africa. There is every reason to be optimistic and hopeful.”

“Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

“Despair exists only when there is hope.”

“None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.”

“My only hope lies in my despair.”

“Who knew love could kill you?”

“It is human instinct that makes it ferocious and wild. It could be anyone or anything. That is why cruelty, savagery, criminality, brutality and evil never cease.”

“I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.”