“Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.”– Harlan Coben Related Quotes “We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.”— Mark Twain “The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”– Clara Zetkin “So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.”— Thomas Daniel Nehrer