Quotes About Hope

Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but Hell is an inference from analogy.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

She'll forgive me for defending myself as soon as she...gets back. And you had better hope that she is back by the next time those pretty black eyes open, because otherwise, I am going to have to get creative, and you probably aren't going to enjoy that, So shut your mouth, shut your eyes, and go to sleep, or I swear to Heaven, Hell, and all the worlds between, I will give you good reason to scream.

Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.

May you rise with the sun, ready to make hay. May the rains come at night to wash your cares away. May you sleep with the angels sittin' on your bed. May you be an hour in Heaven a'fore the Devil knows you're dead.

Ne laissez aucun mal à s'abattre sur nous. Let no evil befall us.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.

Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.

You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else's.

There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.

But I guess you learn to stop hoping, after a while. Life teaches you to expect the worst, eh?

I'd hate to be lost. But prepare yourself for the possibility of disappointment. Life is full of them." And the manner of its endings is often the greatest one of all.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

hope's like damp – however much you try to keep it out there's always a little gets in.

But then, if you leave it long enough, what doesn't end badly?

He trusted to God, since there was no one else. He hoped for heaven. But he fully expected the alternative.

But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams.

have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams. Most

No debería haberse permitido albergar ilusiones, pero las esperanzas son como las malas hierbas, que siguen apareciendo por muchas veces que las desbroces.

Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger.

never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.