Task: Analyze the tweet's emotional connotations and classify it as either 'neutral or no emotion' or as one or more of the specified emotions (anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, love, optimism, pessimism, sadness, surprise, trust) that best portray the tweeter's mental state.
Tweet: Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
This tweet contains emotions: 
optimism