David Lynch Quotes

To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The majority of the people on the face of this earth want peace, and if this is true, then peace on earth is a very achievable objective. People say it's not going to happen. Well, let this time belong to those who believe it can happen, not to the ones who say it cannot.

I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.