We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.

Those of us who survive must indeed be a tough people.

Those of us who survive must indeed be a tough people.

Without Hope we live in desire.

When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.

We each survive in our own way.

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.

The things that make our lives are so tenuous, so unlikely, that we barely come into being, barely meet the people we're meant to love, barely find our way in the woods, barely survive catastrophe every day.

and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

We struggle onward, ignorant and blind,