Quotes About Hope

Happiness is always just around the bend; always in sight but just out of reach.

Las decepciones amorosas, generalmente tienen el efecto de conducir a los hombres a la bebida, y a las mujeres a la ruina; y esto, porque la mayoría de la gente nunca aprende el arte de transmutar sus emociones más fuertes en sueños de carácter constructivo.

It is my great hope someday to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known, namely that our highest currency is respect.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.

One of life's machinations is to make some people both rich and unhappy, that is, jointly fragile and deprived of hope.

Most people give up before the rewards.

You betrayed those who had high hopes for you

Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy.

Allora io avevo fede in un avvenire facile e lieto, ricco di desideri appagati, di esperienze e di comuni imprese. Ma era quello il tempo migliore della mia vita e solo adesso che m'è sfuggito per sempre, solo adesso lo so. [Inverno in Abruzzo - Le piccole virtù]

No nos curaremos nunca de esta guerra. Es inútil. Jamás volveremos a ser gente serena, gente que piensa y estudia y construye su vida en paz. Mirad lo que han hecho con nuestras casas. Mirad lo que han hecho con nosotros. Jamás volveremos a ser gente tranquila.

Al llegar a Roma respiré, y pensé que comenzaría una época feliz para nosotros. No tenía motivos para pensarlo, pero lo hice. Teníamos un alojamiento en los alrededores de la plaza Bologna. Leone dirigía un periódico clandestino y estaba siempre fuera de casa. Lo detuvieron a los veinte días de nuestra llegada y no lo vi nunca más.

I can't help what I dream.

She was able to believe in this because she needed to; and, believing, was her own true, promising friend once more.

Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.

Every time I want to give up on him, there's always something inside telling me to just give it time.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can't help crying.

I'm going to be a star some day, she announced as though daring him to contradict her. I'm sure you... It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want. It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel, but... If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.

This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to stablish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.