Gail Godwin Quotes

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The atheist has no hope.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better?" No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.

It's a cruel world, don't you think?

Life is a hideous thing.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.