Quotes About Hope

Faith is the soul looking upward to God, hope is looking forward to the future, and love is looking outward to others.

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing. It is also interesting that thoughts about fishing are often carried on in dialogue form where Hope and Fear—or, many times, two Fears—try to outweigh each other. One

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

you can do is nothing." (T. Roosevelt) Berlin, 1945

The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

He had a communications director named Hope Hicks. It's not like this was some kind of brilliant subterfuge.

Sometimes I find myself wishing that the world would end in my lifetime, since that would be oddly flattering; we'd all be part of humanity's apex. That's about as great an accomplishment as I can hope for

The future is always impossible.

Christ did not come to make bad men good, but to give dead men life!

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.