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{{quote|''But then I met a boy who made me feel not so worthless. . . like maybe there's hope for me. . . and it '''terrifies''' me.''|'''Fuchsia''', ''[[Sinfest]]''}}
The [[Despair Event Horizon]] has its advantages. Your expectations are no longer dashed. You feel
But if, in that state, someone inspires you with [[Worth Living For|even a fragment of hope]]
Usually just a blip on the road to recovery from the despairing state. Common for the [[Broken Bird]] to feel it.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Bleach]]'': After Rukia resigns to her fate, Gin tells her he can bust her out. Then he tells her he's joking. Her resignation evaporates.
* In ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', when Kurapika starts talking about evacuation routes, his bodyguard client Oito Hui Guo Rou starts to tremble on page 164 of volume 34.
== Comic Books ==
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== Film ==
* In ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', Red is characterized this way, (the result of being an aging, cynical con who seems likely to spend the rest of his life in prison) and at one point when his best friend Andy is talking about the importance of hope Red responds by essentially saying that hope is usually just a case of [[Yank the Dog's Chain]], especially in a [[Crapsack World]] like prison. {{spoiler|The last lines of the movie are about Red starting to hope again.}}
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'''Andy:''' Like [[Driven to Suicide|Brooks did]]? }}
** This mentality is not helped by the fact that some cons who are let out after decades can't handle the lack of orders and regimentation and end up [[Driven to Suicide]] even when they're finally free.
== Literature ==
* In [[
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* At one point in ''[[
* In [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Persuasion]]'', after realizing that Anne might still love him, Wentworth writes to her of his being in hope and pain.
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* In Angie Sage's ''[[
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''After Doomsday'', the alien Ramri tries to calm Donnan as the plan to escape comes to fruition; he admits that he never understood why humans find hope more terrifying than despair.
* The characters in ''[[Chaos Walking]]'' can't help but be wary of hope.
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* In ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== Music ==
* [[Music/Showbread|Showbread]]'s "Precursor" ends with the stanza:
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surrendering all of my will.
Believing in nothing is scary.
Believing in something is scarier still. }}
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* In ''[[Fate/stay
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Sinfest]]'': [
* In ''[[
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