Caitlin Moran Quotes

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

I don't think people can die on 'Suits.' It's still, at its heart, an aspirational show, and it would be so hard to watch these people wrestle with that.

Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.

When you are confronted with a level of devastating disease and death, you never lose that sense of unbelievable humility.

There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.