Quotes About Hope

It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

I pray silently: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I don't know what it means, but it sounds right, and it will have to do, because I don't know what else I can say to God.

on the Street of Dreams it was dream eat dream.

And so I step up, int the darkness within; or else the light.

Maybe acting as if she believes in such a future will help to create it, which is the kind of thing the Gardeners used to say.

I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.

It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen.

I did not give him a straight answer, because saying what you really want out loud brings bad luck, and then the good thing will never happen. It might not happen anyway, but just to make sure, you should be careful about saying what you want or even wanting anything, as you may be punished for it.

I wanted happy endings in those days, and happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked and going to sleep during the rampages.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

from under the ground, from under the waters, they clutch at us, they clutch at us, we won't let go.

God be with you is not an unmixed blessing.

Fool, he tells himself. She's not here. She was never here. It was imagination and wishful thinking, nothing but that. Resign yourself. He can't resign himself.

In her place I would have just laid down in a ditch and cried myself to death. But Amanda says if there's something you really want, you can figure out a way to get it. She says being discouraged is a waste of time.

Oh God. It's no joke. Oh God oh God. How can I keep on living?

As a species we're doomed by hope, then?

All she wants is for both of them to be different. Not very different, a little would do it. Same molecules, different arrangement. All she wants is a miracle, because anything else is hopeless.

As a species we're doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy. Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.

however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

Margaret Atwood

I no longer think that anything can happen. I no longer want to think that way. Happen is what you wait for, not what you do; and anything is a large category.

In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.