Joseph Addison Quotes

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Hope is the denial of reality.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

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

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.

On one hand, I'm an optimistic pessimist. On the other, I'm a pessimistic optimist. But while there's life, there's still hope, and I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if I didn't think there was still hope.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.

In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.