Josh Radnor Quotes

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

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

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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

Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

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

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

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

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

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.