Quotes About Hope

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

I still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.

For a while under Donald Trump, it was possible to believe that we could go back to a more functional, less rancorous time. This desire was expressed most eloquently at John McCain's funeral services.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn't the slightest sign of it in sight.

Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived.

If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.

My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever … But you're a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….

nulla dies felix—call no day fortunate till it be ended.

Pero lo que significa y cómo lo significa y quién lo dice y a quién le toca morir así; me gustaría creer que hay esperanza, digamos, en el hecho de poner atención a las palabras.

At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again. At which point I conceived a realm more real than life. At which point there was at least some possibility. Some possibility, in which I didn't believe, of being with her once more.

man is saved with the world and not from it.

If one of the damned could just once say 'My God, I love you' it would no longer be hell for him.

Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Du moins, sur ce trottoir où je t'abandonne,j'ai l'espérance que tu n'es pas seule.

I go to see a Greater Perhaps.

Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.

Might I, quavered Mary, might I have a bit of earth?

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.