Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

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

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

He who has never hoped can never despair

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

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

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

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

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

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

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

I'm always optimistic.