Famous Quotes

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Walter Benjamin on Hope

More quotes about Hope

• "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

  Albert Einstein on Hope

• "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Hope

• "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Hope

• "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

  Maya Angelou on Hope

• "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

  Dalai Lama on Hope

More quotes by Walter Benjamin

• "The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."

• "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

• "It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."

• "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

• "Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."