Hope in reality is the worst ofall evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
-- Friedrich Nietsche

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
-- Henry Miller

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate and you who are tortured body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
-- Antonio Artaud

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
-- George Eliot

Abandon all hope, you who entere here.
-- Dante Alighieri

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
-- Robert Ingersoll