“Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.”
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Václav Havel 126
playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of … 1936–2011Related quotes

“There was silence deep as death,
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.”
Battle of the Baltic (1805), st. 2 http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3042&poem=17248; a poem about the Battle of Copenhagen

“Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.”

Source: 2022, Remarks to Mark One Year Since The January 6th Deadly Assault On The U.S. Capitol (2022)
“There's nothing wrong with you.. not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter”
Source: City of Souls

Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018)

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