Quotes About Hope

Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to soar, like a child on a swing, I always – like the child – had to come down to the public garden and face my defeat, with no flags to wave in battle and no sword I was strong enough to unsheath.

Del amor sólo he exigido que nunca dejase de ser un sueño lejano.

Love is a mysticism that wants to be put into practice, an impossibility that according to our dreams should be possible.

Ah, no hay nostalgia más dolorosa que la de las cosas que nunca han sucedido!

L'INNOCENZA PERDUTA Avevo un campo pieno di speranza ma nel delirio della febbre lo devastai, e allora lo seminai di amori e vi nacquero fiori di delusione.

Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.

If only the day and happiness would never come! If only hopes could at least not suffer the disappointment of coming true!

I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me/ through hills and valley/ I hope my soul/ never finds me.

I know not what tomorrow will bring».

In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese

It will all be okay in the end, and if its not, then its not the end.

Everything will be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not yet the end!

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

nec metu nec spe, el

Yet the idea of American investment was potent. To open the Irish economy up so that British bosses could employ Irish workers was to admit defeat. To have American firms in small Irish towns would be to embrace a thrilling modernity and simultaneously to reconnect with the great Irish-American diaspora in whom so much hope – from tourist dollars to support for the national cause of ending partition – had been invested

Gatsby creía en la luz verde, el futuro orgiástico que año tras año retrocede ante nosotros. Se nos escapa ahora, pero no importa, mañana correremos más, alargaremos

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Grace changes us and change is painful.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace.