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Quotes About Hope

Theo wanted to call him back. But then he thought, oh let him go, there's no mending a fruitless love, it just has to be endured.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.
~ Iris Murdoch
Then she thought, is this really all I have to look forward to, is this what I have to comfort myself with?
~ Iris Murdoch
How happy are those who believe that they can pray and be helped, or even, without being helped, be listened to.
~ Iris Murdoch
The best you can hope for is a little peace and not too much remorse. Thoughts at peace under an English heaven.
~ Iris Murdoch
Yet the love is there, the love is there — only it's as if it's so wounded it has curled up and gone into a black hole.
~ Iris Murdoch
All that had seemed impossible, too late, a dream, had suddenly become possible, even natural and inevitable.
~ Iris Murdoch
we have futures. That means we can make things true…
~ Iris Murdoch
If only there were not these vain ghostly hopes, these sudden inane shadows of possibilities, these unfulfilled conditionals of hopeless desire.
~ Iris Murdoch
On this diet of expectation, he had fairly frenzied himself by the time he arrived.
~ Iris Murdoch
Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.
~ Iris Murdoch
Do you think she'll change? Hope nothing. Is there a cure? Only art. Or more love. I should die of more love.
~ Iris Murdoch
Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.
~ Irvine Welsh
The pit of melancholy was a bottomless one, and he was descending fast, falling further away from the good times. Such times often seemed tantalisingly within reach; he could see them, going on all around him. His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more.
~ Irvine Welsh
With the gift of faith, we move on.
~ Irvine Welsh
His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more
~ Irvine Welsh
No pasa nada..., se pondrá bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondrá bien.» Y sé que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico.
~ Irvine Welsh
Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it.
~ Irvine Welsh
IF YOU FEEL HIGH OR LOW, MIND THAT NOTHING GOOD OR BAD LASTS FOREVER AND TODAY'S THE START OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
~ Irvine Welsh
Lo he dejado varias veces. Dejarlo y volver a picarse es como ir a la cárcel. Cada vez que vas a la cárcel, disminuye la probabilidad de que alguna vez estés libre de ese tipo de vida. Es igual cada vez que vuelves al caballo. Disminuyes tus posibilidades de ser capaz de prescindir de él algún día.
~ Irvine Welsh
One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it's the very last of them to succumb.
~ Irvine Welsh
It's a lovely day today So whatever you've got to do You've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true And I hope whatever you've got to do Is something that can be done by two For I'd really like to stay It's a lovely day today And whatever you've got to do I'd be so happy to be doing it with you But if you've got something that must be done And it can only be done by one There is nothing more to say Except it's a lovely day for saying It's a lovely day!
~ Irving Berlin
These workers, said Mendes with a gentle sweep of his arm, have a hard life of it. When illness comes they have no money for a doctor. The food for tomorrow comes from today's labour, and hard labour it is, too. Their houses, as you see, are small and poor; they are never more than a stone's throw away from privation and want. They've made a bad bargain with life; they need the thought of God to comfort them.
~ Irving Stone
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
~ Isaac Asimov