Yossi Sarid Quotes

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

What's the bleedin' point?

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.