Simone Elkeles Quotes

It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

There is no better moment than this moment, when we're anticipating the actual moment itself. All of the moments that lead up to the actual moment are truly the best moments. Those are the moments that are filled with good times. Those are the moments in which you are able to think that it is going to be perfect, when the moment actually happens. But, the moment is reality, and reality always kinda sucks!

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.