Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

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

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

Who knows what the heck the future will bring.

As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.