Quotes About Hope

Let's try again.' But they had already tried, again and again and again, and always, when the first crashing wave of mutual longing subsided, the ugly wreck of the past lay revealed again, its shadow lying darkly over everything they tried to rebuild.

Id rather die than have more. Actually I'd rather die than most things. But you know that about me. Will I ever see you again? You could come and see me here. Today I imagined you walking in, like I did when your leg. I imagined you telling them to let me go because you loved me and you'd look after me. I cried . . .

She supposed it had been a forlorn hope, but it was something she was very keen to know.

am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope… Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

If that doesn't work, she can have a hundred quid." "I think she's hoping for thousands." "And I'm hoping for Christmas in the Bahamas," said Strike, as rain dotted the window behind him.

She remembers how she 'wanted only to see the good' and the rest she 'simply shoved aside'.

History is the geology of human experience, a study, as it were, of tragedy and comedy laid down in the strata of past lives. In death there are no winners or losers, merely people who once lived but can never live again. What they thought, what they believed, what they hoped, is largely lost. That which remains is history.

The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.

When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand- new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good, long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

He was drowsy. "I hope, I hope in my heart, that the fire is out. It burned too hot.

In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.

And even as the chariot of time hustles me along, I never forget that Bob Caro is coming up from behind with volume five of LBJ. I hope he makes it. I hope I make it.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Turn your scars into stars