Quotes About Hope

Não temos juventude, ficamos logo adultos, e continuamos então adultos por um tempo demasiadamente longo, vêm daí um certo cansaço e uma certa desesperança que atravessa com um vinco largo a essência no conjunto tão tenaz e cheia de esperança do nosso povo

There is infinite hope, but not for man.

Oh, if only you knew how hard I try to find a kernel of good for myself in all you do and say, even if it torments me.

In that case, I'll miss the thing by waiting fot it. (Epígraf a Laszló Krasznahorkai, «Tango Satánico», citació de Kafka, «El castell»)

On the other hand, there are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy.

O tu sei mia e tutto va bene, o invece ti perdo e allora... non c'è niente, ...niente di niente.

Your eyes seem to be expecting miracles I would be most honored and willing to perform.

As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.

O verdadeiro desespero sempre e imediatamente ultrapassou o seu alvo

Sou de pedra. Sou a minha própria pedra tumular, sem nenhum interstício para a dúvida ou para a fé, para o amor ou para a repulsa, para a coragem ou para a angústia, em particular ou em geral; só uma vaga esperança vive, mas à maneira das inscrições funerárias.

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Se, joka uskoo kehitykseen, ei tarkoita samaa kuin uskoisi kehitykseen, joka on jo tapahtunut. Se ei vaadi uskoa.

Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt.

He said he'd like to help the chief financial officer himself, because he was a good and honest man, but he didn't know how to go about it, and he could only hope that influential people would intervene in his behalf. He thought that would surely happen and that things would turn out well, but for the moment, as he gathered form the chief financial officer's mood, things didn't look at all good.

I can't think of anything to write, I'm just walking around here between the lines, underneath the light of your eyes, in the breath of your mouth like in some beautiful happy day, which stays beautiful and happy even if my head is sick, tired.

26. Say?s?z s???nak vard?r, ancak kurtuluÅŸ yolu tektir; ama kurtuluÅŸ olas?l?klar? yine de s???naklar kadar çoktur. Bir hedef var, ama yol yok; bizim yol dediÄŸimiz ÅŸey, bir duraksamad?r.

Occasionally I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity and of the existence of a goal to which one makes one's way by undergoing every kind of unhappiness.

No se hacen promesas para esperanzas aparentemente imposibles de cumplir, pero si llegan a cumplirse, es como si las promesas hubieran estado justo allí donde se las había buscado en vano.

Pregunto acaso [...] con la pretensión de que se me conteste? ¿Tengo unas esperanzas tan estúpidas?

he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at an end.

62. Fakt, ?e istnieje tylko ?wiat duchowy, odbiera nam nadziej?, ale daje nam pewno??.

Prayer," Kafka notes, brings "its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence.

we don't have to fly straight into the sun, but we do need to creep into some tidy little place on earth where the sun sometime shines and where we can find a little warmth for ourselves.

If you were crossing a plain, with the good will to get across, but all the same your steps took you backwards, it would be a matter for despair; but as you are clambering up a steep slope, as steep, say, as you yourself are viewed from below, it could also be that your steps backward are only caused by the nature of the ground, and you do not have to despair.