The sign over the gates of Dante's hell reads, quite appropriately:
Liz Hinds says though:
When you're incarcerated, it's hope they wish you to despair of first. When you have nothing and become a serf, a slave, hope wrecks that dastardly plan. With no hope, there is resignation and a greater chance of controlling you. This is why a certain way of thinking, being based on hope, faith and charity, is so difficult to suppress [although they're giving it their best shot].
When a person continues to entertain even a glimmer of hope, he [she] can never be finally destroyed.
Calum Carr also did a post on hope here. He'll be sadly missed.
'All hope abandon ye who enter here.' [Cary's translation]
Liz Hinds says though:
The wind that took your dreams blows softly on it and the darkness itself is lit by the glowing ember, the fire that can’t be extinguished, that’s always there, the hope that makes the difference between living and dying.
When you're incarcerated, it's hope they wish you to despair of first. When you have nothing and become a serf, a slave, hope wrecks that dastardly plan. With no hope, there is resignation and a greater chance of controlling you. This is why a certain way of thinking, being based on hope, faith and charity, is so difficult to suppress [although they're giving it their best shot].
When a person continues to entertain even a glimmer of hope, he [she] can never be finally destroyed.
Calum Carr also did a post on hope here. He'll be sadly missed.