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#1

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
― Stephen King

tags: hope

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#2

“Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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#3

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

tags: acceptance, comfort, home, protection, safety, security

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#4

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: death, inspirational

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#5

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, hypocrisy, pain, suffering

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#6

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

tags: love, pain

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#7

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain

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#8

“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

tags: family, home

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#9

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

tags: depression, pain, trauma

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#10

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: family, inspirational

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#11

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”
― Joseph Addison

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#12

“Should the whole frame of nature round him break,
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.”
― Joseph Addison

tags: apocalypse

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#13

“…So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky”
― John Dryden, The Major Works

tags: apocalypse

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#14

“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
memories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreams
play when time is askew? Are we not all adrift in the constant sea of trial and when all is done, do we not all yearn for ships to carry us home?”
― Nathan Reese Maher

tags: abandoned, amnesia, androids, apocalypse, carrack, cityisle, cityspire, count, damnation, death, desolate, dreams, emily-dickinson, empty, fedora, ghosts, gothic, greek-mythology, haunting, haunts, horace-walpole, jazz, life, magic, magick, mannequins, masquerade, music, phillip-k-dick, piano, poems, puddles, rain, reflections, romance, sacrifice, science-fiction, sex, shakespeare, ships, songs, specters, spectre, storms, tempest, waking, water

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#15

“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
― John Dryden

tags: perseverance, poetry

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#16

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”
― John Dryden

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#17

“And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

tags: apocalypse, armageddon, darkness, death

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#18

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#19

“No one here gets out alive.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: death, life, verse

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#20

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
― Dylan Thomas

tags: death, lost-love, love, mourning

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#21

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: death, inspirational

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#22

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls

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#23

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: hope, inspirational, love

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#24

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

tags: despair, hope

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#25

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

tags: accomplishment, achievement, death, humanity, victory

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#26

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! ”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: hope

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#27

“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
― John Calvin

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#28

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#29

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: adversity, american-revolution, trials

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#30

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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