Elie Wiesel Quotes

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.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

Without hope we are lost.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

God's most precious commodity—hope .... When a child has no hope a nation has no future.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world

One of the hardest things is to create hope.

Giving is most important to show the less fortunate that you don't give up. You always want to live a better life.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.