John Berger Quotes

I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Without hope we are lost.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

He who has hope, has everything.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

I wanted to tell people that hope is really powerful.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Hope is a moral choice.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far away it seems.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

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

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.