“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?”
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J.R.R. Tolkien
8 quotes“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
Martin Luther King
7 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Leonard Cohen
4 quotes“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Albert Camus
4 quotes“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
John Green
3 quotes“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
Václav Havel
3 quotes“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless o...”
Elie Wiesel
3 quotes“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
Martin Luther
3 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Thomas Hardy
3 quotes“Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”
Thornton Wilder
3 quotes“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.”
Cormac McCarthy
2 quotes“Carry the fire.”