Top 25 Sad But Hopeful Quotes
#1. The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.
Julie Mehretu
#2. Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
#3. I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
Robert Lopez
#4. If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
Jodi Picoult
#5. She wasn't bitter. But it was a hopeful kind of sad that just takes time
Stephen Chbosky
#6. From all my dreams where you felt everlasting
to all my clothes your words used to wear,
to the old end, to the new beginning,
you have lost me everywhere.
Khadija Rupa
#7. In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.
A.B. Shepherd
#8. The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
Baruch Spinoza
#9. For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was never really hers.
Ellen Miller
#11. To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressler
#12. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
Tammara Webber
#13. Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
Jayni Chase
#15. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.
Stephen Chbosky
#16. How could you bear to refuse it?" Seven felt warm tears rising to her eyes, and slowly she reached out for Riley's hands. Her eyes were glistening, as well, as she accepted Seven's hand. "My individuality had become more important to me than the perfection the Caeliar were offering," Seven replied.
Kirsten Beyer
#17. I felt a wave of longing roll out of me, but not the way it usually did, diffuse and sad. This was hopeful, as though it had been coaxed out by a whispered promise.
Michele Jaffe
#18. But I hope you don't feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.
Remember, you always will be.
Khadija Rupa
#19. Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.
Rick Perry
#20. I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Frederick Marryat
#21. We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
Otto Frank
#22. At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.
Ruth Ozeki
#23. What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.
Casey Wilson
#24. It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#25. Maybe hope and sadness can coexist, she thought. That felt like a significant idea. Maybe Cam could hope without denying that huge part of herself that needed to be sad. She didn't have to sacrifice one for the other. Maybe all people were both hopeful and sad in every moment of their lives.
Wendy Wunder
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