Quotes About Hope

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.

Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her.— That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If he had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today!

Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel one another out, and lose themselves in a dark insensateness. How else could we know the people we love best to be in continual danger and yet go on with our daily lives as usual?

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

God knows, I often lie down to sleep with the desire, even sometimes the hope, not to wake up again.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Ah, when, within our narrow chamber The lamp with friendly lustre glows, Flames in the breast each faded ember, And in the heart, itself that knows. Then Hope again lends sweet assistance, And Reason then resumes her speech: One yearns, the rivers of existence, The very founts of Life, to reach.

Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

Sometimes life is truly woeful.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!