Quotes About Hope

Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive

Sir, I hope your excellency'—What's all this ceremony?

Pray on, then, all you postponed and disappointed and impoverished people of God; pray on and faint not. Pray on: for the prayer is far better than the answer.

At morning assembly we were read the words of Cyprian of Carthage: 'Let us on both sides of death always pray for one another.' Then we bowed our heads and beseeched God to protect our troops, and to send us peace and plentiful rain, and to grant us an ample harvest. But God remained pretty meager with his miracles: the dead stayed dead, the war went on, the rain either came too early and too strong or not at all, and the harvest depended in whether or not we'd had eelworm and blight.

The world looks better when your belly is full, brighter and more hopeful. After

It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and fear overwhelm hope and courage and when all that is ugly in us is magnified and when we are most panic-stricken by what we have lost, and what we have almost lost, and what we fear we might lose.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues? Maximilien asked. Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.

God is always the last resource.

does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you…

I have lost my friends, D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. I have nothing left but the bitterest of recollections... Two large tears rolled down his cheeks. You are young, Athos answered. Your bitter recollections have the time requisite to change into the happiest of memories.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.