Quotes About Hope

And yet hope turns out to be let's face it mostly delusion a word derived from Latin ludere meaning "to play a game with oneself or others"...

MEGARA Wait for worse? You love the light so much? AMPHITRYON I do, I love its hopes.

May god favour you with dreams

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I hope that you will wave back to me from your distant shore, and understand the signal.

Nothing is as it was before, after the screen has gone to black. Darkness lies on the soul. To use Beckett's phrase, "what cowers behind it begins to seep through." With her new shopping cart Hekabe, queen of Troy, will be prowling the aisle for dog biscuits.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The

I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.

I don't blame him for anything now. Or not much. All of this will, in some form, happen to you. You will wake some morning and pat yourself down. You will realise that you think too much and live too little and that most people, men and women both, are mostly fine. You will love more easily and relinquish blame. At least I hope you will.

Do not sigh, do not weep!

Yesterday, when we were packing, Julius asked me, "If you could rub Tulip out of your past life, would you do it?" And I had to shake my head. I can't regret the times we had together. Sometimes I worry I won't have times like that again, that there will be no lit nights, no incandescent days. But I know it's not true. There can be colour in a million ways. I know I'll find it on my own.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.