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• Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wise, Wisdom

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Rest In Peace, Recovery, Sacrifice

  "What If Apollo 11 Failed? President Nixon Had Speech Ready" by Nola Taylor Redd, www.space.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Voting, Slavery

  P. D. James (2008). “A Taste for Death”, p.326, Faber & Faber

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• In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Yellow, White

  "Power: A New Social Analysis". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers, 1938.

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• The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

  Tacitus

  Liberty, Used, Mischievous

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• The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Feelings, Robots

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Escaping, Tyrants, May

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.392, Spectra

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• With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

  John Steinbeck

  Armor, Without Hope

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must make the choice to act for the greater good, even at risk to ourselves, but we do not lay down our lives needlessly. Each of us has only one life to live, and one life to give. There is no glory in throwing it away where there is no hope.

  John Connolly

  Giving, Choices, Risk

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Fire, Heaven, Storm

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.9, Macmillan

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• I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Worst Times, Calling, Grew

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1310, Delphi Classics

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• Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loss, Sorrow, Despair

  "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.

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• Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Sacrifice, Joy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Ideas, Expectations, Lasts

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• I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Regret, Doe

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.15, Random House

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• When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

  Coretta Scott King

  Friday, Easter, Moments

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• Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

  Paul Torday

  Trouble, Muhammad, Faith In Love

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• Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Twenties, Three, Embodiment

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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• If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

  Rachel Joyce

  Mad, Ifs

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• I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Angel, Breathing, Mad

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Punishment, Gone, Fixing

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

  Sarah Kane

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hope, Goal, Doe

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.92, Penguin

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• If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hope, Guarantees, Assuming

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• ...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

  Robert Redford

  Peace, Soul, Humanity

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