George Steiner Quotes

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

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

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

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

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

People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse.

In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope.

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

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

A world without hope, but no despair

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

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life.

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

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

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

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.