David Milch Quotes

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.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Hope is universal.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Hope is a waking dream.

At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

Hope is a real thing. It's not pie in the sky.

Every single one of us needs hope.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

I would rather believe for something great and receive half of it, than to believe for nothing and receive all of it!

Hope is a moral choice.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

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.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?