Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Hope is a function of struggle.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

We all get discouraged.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.