Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

I would rather be dead than empty

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

We must have hope or starve to death.

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

One who has hope lives differently.

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.