Hope Dies Last Quotes

#1. Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

Lydia Lunch

#4. Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem
then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Erica Jong

#6. If our focus is whether our wants are met, it is almost impossible to remain thankful. Let's be thankful that our needs have been met!

Assegid Habtewold

#7. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

Robert Crumb

#8. What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Franz Kafka

#9. The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

Abraham Maslow

#10. If you think of the way Howlin' Wolf made records, you get the feeling there wasn't a production manager onsite, or a publicist having his say on how he should sing the songs. When you listen to his records, you feel like you're tapping into his voice.

M. Ward

#11. Hope is the last thing that dies.
Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

Vera Nazarian

#12. Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

Edmund Waller

#13. I hadn't been there. I couldn't judge. But it seemed to me that the only thing more disgusting than the speed at which we'd handed over our freedom for the promise of security was the speed in which others had stepped in to take that control.

Michael Dempsey

#14. When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.

James E. Rogers

#15. No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.

Terry Pratchett

#16. When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.

Janny Wurts