Quotes About Hope

I talked to you about the difficulty of being Jewish, which is the same as the difficulty of writing. For Judaism and writing are but the same waiting, the same hope, the same wearing out.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

La fe de Abraham fue probada cuando Dios le pidió dar todo. La fe no puede ser menos que total. Confiar en Dios significa verlo solo a Él, encontrar en Él todas nuestras esperanzas, no retener nada, no tener ninguna reserva. La fe es compromiso. Pero solo porque la fe mira a Dios y no a nosotros, el dar de la fe es realmente recibir. En compromiso, el precio que la fe paga es todo. Pero en confianza total, el precio es nada. La fe mira a Dios, no al hombre, como el dador.

And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

la pobre virgencita rústica que espera que su caballero deje de hacer el tonto con la princesa malvada

He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried,What hell it is, in suing long to bide:To lose good days, that might be better spent;To waste long nights in pensive discontent;To speed today, to be put back tomorrow;To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought. (No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,Did all within this circle move!

Despite my fears and my aching loneliness, I believed without a doubt in a better world, which was adulthood or New York or Paris or love.

I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

Take up the song; forget the epitaph.

Yet here one time your spirit was wont to move; Here might I hope to find you day or night, And here I come to look for you, my love, Even now, foolishly, knowing you are dead.

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

GENNARO Ha da passa' 'a nuttata.»