“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”
Source: House of Leaves
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Il y a une chose plus triste à perdre que la vie, c’est la raison de vivre,
Plus triste que de perdre ses biens, c’est de perdre son espérance.
L'otage (Paris: Édition de la Nouvelle revue française, 1911) p. 162; Pierre Chavannes (trans.) The Hostage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917) p. 130.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Day Before the Revolution” p. 270 (originally published in Galaxy, August 1974)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”
Danielle Steel Five Days in Paris
Source: Five Days in Paris
“Losing all hope was freedom.”
Variant: This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Source: Fight Club
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geogr…
Letter to a friend (November 1920), as quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 428
