Andre Aciman Quotes

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

I don't know the future.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I live for what I haven't done.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.