Richelle Mead Quotes

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

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

A world without hope, but no despair

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

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.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.

Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

He who has never hoped can never despair

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair