Marilyn Monroe on hope
Marilyn Monroe121 quotes“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”
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Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting than being one.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn’t you.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I could never pretend something I didn’t feel. I could never make love if I didn’t love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you’re laughing again.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe All men are the same. They just have different faces so that women differentiate them.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I do what I like, I like what I do.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe We should all start to live before we get too old.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans
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I’m not desperate but I know that some day I’ll be the coach again of some team.
Diego MaradonaDiego Maradona I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
Blake AudenBlake Auden To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
Blake AudenBlake Auden I’m a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
Ansel AdamsAnsel Adams If there’s still hope for the hopeless, there must be hope for us.
Ana DeeAna Dee For what I have publish’d, I can only hope to be pardon’d; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais’d.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope
