Quotes About Hope

Without death, the influence of faith-based religion is unthinkable. Clearly, the fact of death is intolerable to us, and faith is little more than the shadow cast by our hope for a better life beyond the grave.

that paradise awaits

He goes so far as to suggest that we were secretly hoping that such devastation would be visited upon us:

I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?

VINCE: We'd never make it. We'd drive and we'd drive and we'd drive and we'd never make it. We'd think we were getting farther and farther away. That's what we'd think.

DODGE: You're a funny chicken, you know that? SHELLY: Funny? DODGE: Full of hope. Faith. Faith and hope. You're all alike, you hopers. If it's not God then it's a man. If it's not a man then it's a woman. If it's not a woman then it's politics or bee pollen or the future of some kind. Some kind of future.

I was chilled by the promise of protection that had drawn a child out of a basement and onto an exposed Sarajevan playground.

Death is the period at the end of a sentence. Someone gone, but still out there, is an ellipsis...or a question to be answered.

Where are you and what you are doing is something you have done dozens of times before without having any problems. Recognize that you are going to get out of this- that you always get out of this, that you are going to live, that you won't go crazy. I am telling you that you will live, because you always live, because you are strong and beautiful.

I cry and wonder how I'm going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again.

I know I am sick, I just thought I was better.

I cry and wonder how I am going to fall asleep because sleeping means waking and going through all this again.

When the shivering and shaking stops, I know that I will be okay, but my jaw is still tight, and my knees are knocking and the only thing I can do is stare at the candle flame because it is constant.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant Mind? Must helpless Man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the Torrent of his Fate? Must no Dislike alarm, no Wishes rise, Nor Cries invoke the Mercies of the Skies? Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain Which Heaven may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to Heaven the Measure and the Choice.

While she was doing something she kept her hope alive.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.