Sarah Dessen Quotes

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.

My sun sets to rise again.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

The end of bad news is always good news.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Life is not only about dark nights; it's also about beautiful, sunshiny mornings.

I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.