Quotes About Hope

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

God will give me justice

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes

Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan

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

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words - 'Wait and hope'.

Who can say whether we shall ever see them again?' said Morriel with tearful eyes. 'Darling' replied Valentine, 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? - Wait and hope (Fac et spera)

We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.

The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.

It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— Wait and hope.

You are young, replied Athos, and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

Forward! Still forward! said he. When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.' 'Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.' 'Nothing, madame?' 'Nothing' she replied.

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.

Vivete, dunque, e siate felici, figli adorati del mio cuore, e non dimenticate mai che, sino al giorno in cui Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo l'avvenire, l'intera saggezza umana risiederà in queste due parole: Attendere e sperare! Il vostro amico Edmond Dantès Conte di Montecristo

Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?