„Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.“

— Henry Rollins

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„I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!“
— Charles de Gaulle
„To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.“
— Ronald Reagan
„With hope at last.“
— Cassandra Clare
„And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.“
— Jack Kerouac
„I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Last night I dreamtThat somebody loved meNo hope, no harmJust another false alarmLast night I feltReal arms around meNo hope, no harmJust another false alarmSo, tell me how longBefore the last one?And tell me how longBefore the right one?The story is old - I knowBut it goes onThe story is old - I knowBut it goes onOh, goes onAnd onOh, goes onAnd on“
— Morrissey