“This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me”

“A KIND OF ILLNESSThis ache in my chest is a relentless thing, worse than any fever.A fever is gone with a few of Mumtaz's white pills. But this illness has had me in its grip for a week now.This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me.”

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”

“It is foolish to kill another human being. If you kill an innocent human being, you have killed the whole of humanity. That is what the Prophet has said and I believe so much in that. Hope people come to their senses". - A.R.Rahman”

“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”