Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I have never been a cynical person.

I think maybe I'm just a little too optimistic? I hope for the best in every situation and want to see the good in people.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

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.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.