“The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.”
“False hope is a dangerous tool to employ”
“False hopes are more dangerous than fears.”
“So to be sick unto death is not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”
“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.”