“Hope is the most evil of all emotions”
“A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.”
“Hope is the single most defining as well as the single most disturbing human emotion.”
“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.”
“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”