The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

O! Wanderers in the shadowed land depair not! For though dark they stand, all woods there be must end at last, and see the open sun go past: the setting sun, the rising sun, the day's end, or the day begun. For east or west all woods must fail...

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.