Quotes About Hope

Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great.

It is indeed the case that we philosophers work at night, after the day of the true becoming of a new truth. Yes, we hope, we believe that one day the 'bright obvious' will rise up motionless, in the stellar coldness of its ultimate form. It will be the last stage of philosophy, the absolute Idea, the complete revelation. But this does not come to pass.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

The few poignant moments before the battle, before the gas chamber... these little meetings of kindred spirits, without a past to give them guidance or a future to give them hope, they would find a measure of peace and coherence to lend a reason to the farcical affairs of mankind. Man, in all his wild adventures, had not, as yet, discovered a substitute for faith.

To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.

Everyone at some point will suffer a loss—the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your desert experience—a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert." — Patrick Del Zoppo

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

We all hope for love, enjoy it and desire it, but expecting and demanding it of others fouls up a good relationship.

What has become of the adventures of the heart? Killed by the dark adventures of existence. ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

But what can we do?" said Susan. "Think, and hope," said Cadellin. "I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came.

Was it too much to expect a future?

It was easy to think the worst of humanity when all I saw was brutality and selfishness, and these people showed me there was still good in the world, even if I rarely saw it.

Maybe, Reshmina thought, they wouldn't fight at all. Maybe they would spend their time doing something else instead, like building factories and schools and hospitals.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

Samira had been walking for hours. It was almost dawn—that strange time when it's still dark but the birds wake up and the forest comes to life with the scuttling of little animals. The air was sharp and cool, and dew glistened on the grass. Any minute now, the sun would peek up over the horizon, turning the blue-gray sky orange. And Samira would be too late. She was weary, but hope, fear, worry kept her moving.

It was a world war, and the fate of every nation on Earth, neutral or not, lay in the balance. When the war was over, the world would be ruled one way, or the other—by freedom or fascism, by hope or by fear. I had seen the depths, the lengths, the Nazis would go to win that war, sacrificing their own children to the cause, and I also knew firsthand the sacrifices the Allies had made to stop them. I

Seven thousand Jews had been collected and taken away to die, but we were not among them.

Julia Gary.