Arthur Koestler Quotes

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

Don't be afraid to reach for the stars

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless.

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!

If you don't dream big, there's no use of dreaming. If you don't have faith, there's nothing worth believing.

Whatever you dream of doing one day, don't give up on that dream because you never know where it can take you.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.