Quotes About Hope

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don't, then everything is over with here, once and for all.

Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, and at the same time that indestructible something as well as his trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.

Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--but not for us.

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting for it.

Es gibt unendlich viel Hoffnung, nur nicht für uns.

Other opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation, opportunities whereby a word, a glance, a sigh of trust may achieve more than a lifetime of exhausting endeavour.

The messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last.

A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back by the beneficent passage of these days, without my having to help them even in the very least. And, as it will come about quite naturally, I can be weak and quiet and let everything happen to me, and yet everything must turn out well, through the sheer fact of the passing of days.

Düz bir yolda yürüyor olsayd?n, tüm ilerleme isteÄŸine raÄŸmen hala gerisin geriye gitseydin, o zaman bu çaresiz bir durum olurdu; ama sen dik, senin de aÅŸa??dan gördüÄŸün gibi dik bir yamac? t?rmand???na göre, ad?mlar?n?n geriye doÄŸru kaymas?, bulunduÄŸun yerin durumundan ileri gelebilir, o zaman da umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmana gerek yoktur.

I hope it is nothing serious. On the other hand, I must also say that we business people, luckily or unluckily, however one looks at it, very often simply have to overcome a slight indisposition for business reasons.

If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you yourself are if seen from below, the regression can only be caused by the nature of the ground, and you must not despair.

Utter despair, impossible to pull myself together; Only when I have become satisfied with my sufferings can I stop.

The messiah will come when we don't need him anymore.

Hold fast! then you too will see the unchangeable dark distance, out of which nothing can come except one day the chariot; it rolls up, gets bigger and bigger, fills the whole world at the moment it reaches you - and you sink into it like a child sinking into the upholstery of a carriage that drives through the storm and night.

So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up there, don't worry, just leap up another flight of stairs. As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards

In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.

Hayat?n ve ümidin düÅŸman? bir ortam içinde yazma eylemi kiÅŸinin kendi ipini çekmeden önce vasiyetini yazma isteÄŸinden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey olam?yordu.

48 Belief in progress doesn't mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.

There are possibilities for me, certainly, but under what stone do they lie?