The word hope to those who are broken-hearted is startling, to them it is poison. If you speak of hope to the brokenhearted they say, "Do not speak of it, I do not wish to hear of it!." The state of the broken-hearted is worse than death; they are without ambition, without hope, without life. The one who is broken-hearted is dead while he is alive; the breath is still there, but his heart is dead, life has gone with the hope that was lost. He may not be old in years, but he has become old.