Hope That Kills You Quotes

#1. Once I read a study about prisoners with a life sentence. The ones without the possibility of parole were happier than those who might get out. Defies logic, but then, not really. Sometimes it's the hope that kills you.

Julie Buxbaum

#2. as every office worker knows, it's not the hope that kills you. It's knowing it's the hope that kills you that kills you.

Mick Herron

#3. Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Durgesh Satpathy

#4. But then, as Myrina knew only too well, it is the loss of hope that kills the prey
the loss of will to keep struggling.

Anne Fortier

#5. He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.

Rick Yancey

#6. I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.

Neal H. Moritz

#7. There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Hope strengthens. Fear kills[ ... ] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?

Karen Marie Moning

#10. I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.

Jennifer Donnelly

#11. I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!
Not to believe, and yet too credulous:
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.

William Shakespeare

#13. I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)

Kristina Riggle

#14. I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure.

William R. Forstchen

#15. No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

Sheri Holman

#16. Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Maxim Gorky

#17. Hope strengthens. Fear kills. It's how you go on that defines you

Karen Marie Moning

#18. You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

Stephen King