“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.”

John Marwood Cleese - Brian Stimpson

“You wish to know what I am? To you, I am this: the cry of the abandoned child. The whimper of the whipped beast. I am the face that stares back at you from the shadows of your mirror. The hollowness at the heart of all your hopes, Alexandra. I am despair.”
Andrew Divoff - The Djinn

“I guess if marriage is the death of hope; then, the night before marriage, there's still hope.”
Tony Roberts - Maxwell

“We came to Redbud filled with hopes and dreams of a better life. And basically, we've seen those hopes and dreams crushed and battered before our very eyes.”
Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer

“I was so plumb wore out for awhile I didn't seem to believe in nothin' no more. But, now my clothes are startin' to dry and I'm beginnin' to believe again. I guess that's the way the Earth feels when she's wet. But, the Sun will start dryin' her out and she'll start callin' to me again, just the way Nona does sometimes.”
Zachary Scott - Sam Tucker