Vaclav Havel

Quotes

• “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are...”
• “Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil th...”
• “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the c...”
• “Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, ove...”
• “Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world...”
• “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of...”