Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
Source: Last Sacrifice
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Dan Simmons book Endymion
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)
“I hope there will be no more surprises.”
Lixion Avila (1950) American meteorologist
On Hurricane Kyle in 2002 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2002/dis/al122002.discus.089.html
“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“I have been an Anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one.”
Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) Spanish anarchist
On his military leadership against fascist troops in Spain, as quoted in "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living" (1936) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Essays/durruti.html, by Emma Goldman <br class="br">Context: I have been an Anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one. I should consider it very sad indeed, had I to turn into a general and rule the men with a military rod. They have come to me voluntarily, they are ready to stake their lives in our antifascist fight. I believe, as I always have, in freedom. The freedom which rests on the sense of responsibility. I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.
“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian
2010s, A Dark Time in America (2016)
“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
Steven Erikson book House of Chains
House of Chains (2002)
Sherwood Smith book Crown Duel
Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)