Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?
Elizabeth Wein
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We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And y...
HARVEY MILK Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness...
JüRGEN MOLTMANN Faith is life. How do you live without it?
CALE CHEW The saying "I cannot live without you" is mostly a courtship language,but inside marriage it then be...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and...
HARVEY MILK The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.
SHANNON L. ALDER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes with...
GEORGE ILES Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes with...
CHARLES DARWIN Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes with...
KAREN RAVN The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
SHANNON L. ALDER To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY I seem to be good at asking for trouble.
ELIZABETH WEIN You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live with...
GLORIA NAYLOR I know you love her, but you can live without her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but ...
MATTHEW KELLY How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?
JOHN STEINBECK Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
JUDY GARLAND I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
RAINBOW ROWELL You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabe...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays o...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Without Hope we live in desire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI I don't know how people can live without a therapist.
NEVE CAMPBELL Life is a lesson without an exam. No pass, no fail. You just live it. How tiresome.
EPHDAN I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what i...
KIERA CASS If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
WINNIE THE POOH A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, wi...
AXEL MUNTHE Still desiring, we live without hope.
[It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI") We can live without our three inventions,but we can't live happily without them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.
AMIT KALANTRI Men Can Live Without Food But Not Without Hopes
IAN LIAU OON TOH - SINGAPORE Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone a...
MIRIAM TOEWS The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Love is not just saying,that i can not live without you!Love is that even if i can not live with you...
PRASAD Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothin...
NELY CAB Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but t...
GRANT ACHATZ If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live with...
JEFF RICH You can live without many wants.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion".
KHALED HOSSEINI How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDER You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.
SHIRO AMANO Love is a damaging mistake, and it's accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion" A Thousand Splendid S...
KHALED HOSSEINI Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together an...
LARRY DOBY I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
STEPHENIE MEYER You need to grow up, and realize what it is you need right now, and what you can live without.
HOLLY HOOD Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.
EVAN DANDO Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.
AMIT KALANTRI If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them h...
ELIZABETH WEIN If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and...
ALLY CONDIE But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing t...
DAMIEN HIRST Hope without life;The last hope of man is death,but death is a bizarre kind of hope & hope without l...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a n...
MEREDITH WILD I think he should be in prison the rest of his life without parole. I don't know how he can live wit...
CINDY MORGAN Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Atheists can live without God but they cannot live without water, food and air, which were created b...
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoi...
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.
AMIT KALANTRI To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
LILA ACHESON WALLACE You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.
HELEN ROWLAND You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.
ALEATHA ROMIG What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had whi...
IGOR ELISEEV You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ...
ERNEST DIMNET You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believ...
ERNEST DIMNET You can live without me."
"I don't want to."
I feared a love like this - that ...
ANN AGUIRRE You can never live your life until you have learned how life can live with you.
PRATIK SHARDA We're fine without it. We just did Live 8 without that [special effects or gimmicks]. We play festiv...
NIKKI SIXX We're fine without it. We just did Live 8 without that [special effects or gimmicks]. We play festiv...
NIKKI SIXX You never know how much you love someone until you have to live without them
EE How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall...
ELLEN HOPKINS We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. With...
DEBASISH MRIDHA To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps th...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is so much more to life than just money, work & debt. It is how you really LIVE your life that...
STEVEN R. DIXON We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
DALAI LAMA It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rul...
WALLACE STEGNER Don't choose a profession you can live with;
choose a profession you can't live without.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Without hardships, how could we find hope?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN Hope, what if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us h...
IGOR ELISEEV You can think about life, or live without thinking.
DREW JOHNSON "Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, ma...
MAHARAJI These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
TOM WILSON The statement "I can not live without you" is simply ludicrous. One is able to live without that cer...
DUY NGUYEN The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID You can't tell a story about infidelity without [it] . . . how can you have a hamburger without any ...
GEORGE CLOONEY Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution...
EVO MORALES LIFE AND LIVE:
“ You only live once but if you live it fullest then once is enough. It is never a ...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.
ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an...
ELIZABETH GILBERT