Famous Quotes

"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."

Vaclav Havel on Hope

More quotes about Hope

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

  Albert Einstein on Hope

• "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope

• "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

  Maya Angelou on Hope

• "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

  Dalai Lama on Hope

More quotes by Vaclav Havel

• "It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly."

• "The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."

• "If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

• "What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually."

• "The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."