Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

False hope really makes you cynical.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

He who awaits much can expect little.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.