Dark Quote by Win Butler

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more…

— Arca

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

— Alison Sudol

I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because…

— Richard Flanagan

I have optimism and am incredibly hopeful for the future. I often say to friends, it's always darkest before the dawn, and lets be…

— Lawrence English

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it…

— John Berger

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

— Mohsin Hamid

Reality is not always dark or positive. It is somewhere in-between.

— Antara Mali

“Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be…

— Rebecca Solnit

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that…

— Vaclav Havel

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

— Hisham Matar

All things lie dark in possibility.

— William Saroyan