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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

— Harry Nilsson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

— Thales

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

— Vita Sackville-West

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

— Clare Boothe Luce

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

— Gustave Flaubert

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

— Julius Caesar

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

— James E. Faust

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

— Anne Lamott

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

— James Thurber

I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.

— Lilly Singh

✗Opposing Perspectives

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