Quotes About Hope

the winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;

In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday.

In the final days of Empire, When the people were awakening, It was your smile red carnation which told us that all was being reborn.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

Youth, even in its sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance.

Tout homme peut avoir dans sa destinée une fin du monde pour lui seul. Cela s'appelle le désespoir. L'âme est pleine d'étoiles tombantes.

She flourishes and grows green amid ruins; she has ivy for the stones and love for man.

As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings

How pretty it is here! It was an awful hovel, but she felt free.

The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Les miserables

On emerging from that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like

He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.

A clock does not stop at the very moment you lose the key.

Sunshine helps to make man patient.

composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.

Whatever To-day may be, To-morrow will be peace.

Whatever may be happening today, peace is the meaning of tomorrow

Peoples, like planets, possess the right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night.

LES MISÉRABLES VOLUME

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh ! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault ; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that.

Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.