Quotes About Hope

we will keep going, we will keep going, because there is no such thing as fate. Because we never really come to the end.

My feeling is that until the number of whole lives is greater than the number of shattered lives, we remain stuck in some kind of prehistory, unworthy of humanity's great spirit.

And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another.

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

To hope without hope, which would be wise, is impossible. —MARCEL PROUST, Les Plaisirs et les Jours

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort." —The Dalai Lama

I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.

Kim Stanley Robinson

You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see? And so you have to find what it is you love. You have to remember it, or create it.

It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably

What one would hope for in an ideology is clarity and explanatory breadth, and power. We leave the proof of this as an exercise for the reader.

We are making a better way to live. This was the myth, they had all grown up with it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Hope would have to reside in something like this: hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, alive

What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than any real thing. But this time who could say? This time might be the golden one at last

So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight and burnished in the warmth of the sun—and then—these starships we are making out of Nix. We will send them to the stars, they will be like dandelion seeds, floating away on a breeze. Very beautiful. We will never see them again.

It's not so bad to be a prisoner, if you're working on an escape.

no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340

For that world out there we just saw. For humanity. What's it been, about fifteen thousand people, and a couple hundred years? In the big scheme of things it's not that many. And then we have a new world to live on." "If