Peter V. Brett Quotes

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

One day it'll all make sense.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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 just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.