Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.