Life Quote by Davy Rothbart

“Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on”

— Reginald Hill

“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first,…

— Robin Hobb

“But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. Mom... Dad... I'm okay. I am not…

— Douglas Coupland

“That my life has come down to this – luck, is galling, when I have always directed my own fate. Land or water? Heads…

— Kate Lord Brown

“One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”

— Robin Hobb

“A life lived putside of the will of the Lord is like trying to climb a waterfall.”

— Nicole Baart Summer Snow

“How hard it is to kill hope! Time after time, one thinks one has trodden it down, stamped it to death. Time after time,…

— Dorothy Strachey

“But hope is such a fragile flower in the rocky ground of my soul.”

— Donna Cooner

“It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you’re caught, caught at last like a…

— Jean Anouilh

“Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.”

— Philip Pullman

“All’s well here. Hope your life is full of mice, moles, voles, butterflies, and the occasional inattentive bird. In Catitude, Sneaky Pie”

— Rita Mae Brown

“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while…

— Osamu Dazai