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Quotes About Hope

When you have things, then there is time to dream; when you don't, you fight.
~ Salman Rushdie
The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.
~ Salman Rushdie
It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye.
~ Salman Rushdie
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
~ Salman Rushdie
I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.
~ Salman Rushdie
it feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the sun and after that you're dragged down into the darkness again
~ Salman Rushdie
In my family we've always found the world's air hard to breathe; we arrive hoping for somewhere better.
~ Salman Rushdie
Siz olsan?z, s?n?rlar?n karanl?k taraf?na sürgün edildiÄŸinizde karanl??? ayd?nl??a çevirmeye çal??maz m?yd?n?z?
~ Salman Rushdie
Some migrants are happy to depart.
~ Salman Rushdie
America, what happened to your optimism, your new frontiers, your simple Rockwell dreams? I'm plunging into your night, America, pushing myself deep into your heart like a knife, but the blade of my weapon is hope.
~ Salman Rushdie
Youth was often wretched, the struggle to become themselves tore the young to shreds, but sometimes, after the struggle, better days began.
~ Salman Rushdie
It felt as if a thing that had been impossible had become possible, a thing that had been unthinkable had become thinkable, and Luka did not want to give that terrifying thing a name.
~ Salman Rushdie
But a man may dream, and in his dreams be other than he is.
~ Salman Rushdie
incluso cuando la muerte avanza hacia el centro del escenario, la vida sigue luchando por la igualdad de derechos.
~ Salman Rushdie
It is a rare thing to be granted your heart's desire.
~ Salman Rushdie
When people start talking about a golden age," he said, "they always think a new world has begun which will last forever. But the truth about these so-called golden ages is that they never last very long. A few years, maybe. There's always trouble ahead.
~ Salman Rushdie
Amikor az ember a lehetetlenre vállalkozik, mindennap a halállal utazik, megtisztulásnak, a lélek felemelkedésének fogadja el az utazást, s így az út nem az istenek megnevezése, hanem maga Isten felé tart.
~ Salman Rushdie
Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.
~ Salman Rushdie
Giderken koÅŸullar ne kadar ac? olursa olsun, sonunda dönebildiÄŸiniz yer evinizdir.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ellos hasta le contaban sus sueños, aunque muy pocos soñaban más de una vez al mes, porque eran muy pobres para permitirse esos lujos.
~ Salman Rushdie
Hay emigrantes que se alegran de partir.
~ Salman Rushdie
What I hoped for is indeed beyond hope,' he said. 'I was out of my mind, looking for this year's birds in last year's nests. And all around me America – and not only America, the whole human race! – yes, even our India! – was also losing its reason, its capacity for ethics, its goodness, its soul. And it may be, I can't say, that this deep failure brought down upon us the deeper failure of the cosmos
~ Salman Rushdie
We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that the world isn't good enough, nor are our lives and nor are we. But there are moments in life when we can have an experience of transcendence, feel part of something larger, or simply our hearts burst inside.
~ Salman Rushdie
When you have things, then there is time to dream; when you don't, you fight.
~ Salman Rushdie