Douglas Sirk Quotes

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

My sun sets to rise again.

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Blue is bright and gives us hope for the future.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

There's an abundance of hope in Hollywood, as if it's fueled by the sun, and maybe it is.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

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.

I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

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

My sun sets to rise again.

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

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

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.