There’s no version of an effective resistance. There’s just misguided idealism that leads to death and despair.
People tend to do desperate things when they learn about their other versions.
People get desperate when they’re lonely.
It’s what eats you alive. Loneliness.
It’s not the hope that kills you. It’s knowing it’s the hope that kills you, that kills you.[to River]
If you don’t think there’s hope for the world, why bother going on?[to Joel]
I’m already dead.
Hope is the fool’s ally.
Friendship doesn’t matter. Love doesn’t matter. They’re just things that we use to pretend we aren’t gonna end up like dead cabin guy; like rotted-out husks in some bulls*** attic. But of course that’s how it ends. That’s all we are the whole time. It doesn’t matter. We’re just shells with nothing inside.[to Travis]
You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.[to Zuko]
You know, Virginia Woolf tried to drown herself too.[to Gaby]
What extraordinary beings we are. Even in the revelation of our triumph, you see the depth of our despair.
