Quotes About Hope

Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

He who despairs is wrong.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

where there is no more hope, song remains.

This barricade is made neither of paving stones, nor of timbers, nor of iron; it is made of two mounds, a mound of ideas and a mound of sorrows. Here misery encounters the ideal. Here the day embraces the night, and says: I will die with you and you will be born again with me.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.

By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall shine above, Making all bright, Good night! Good night!

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

I encountered in the street a penniless young man who was in love. His hat was old and his jacket worn, with holes at the elbows; water soaked through his shoes, but starlight flooded through his soul.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.