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

“At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did bear it. The question remains: how?”

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

“So what really happened to you? (Astrid)
Nothing. (Zarek)
Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)”

“Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?”

“I hope of lightning our supply
Will never be exhausted;
You know it's lanterns in the sky
For angels who are losted.”

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

“How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.”

“I trust not to thy phantom bliss,
Yet, still, in evening's quiet hour,
With never-failing thankfulness,
I welcome thee, Benignant Power;
Sure solacer of human cares,
And sweeter hope, when hope despairs!”

“There's a hope for every woe,
And a balm for every pain,
But the first joys of our heart
Come never back again!”