Hope

“He—that's Simon Bolivar—was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. Damn it," he sighed. "'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'

"So what's the labyrinth?" I asked her.

"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering,”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

“I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.”
― Thérèse de Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux