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Quotes About Hope

Az életnek, a szerelemnek, a könyvtáraknak nincs jövÅ'jük.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Bueno, algún día, si quieres venirte a vivir conmigo… Crearé un nuevo Dios y le agradeceré con gritos desgarradores si me das una esperanza microscópica.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
As it happens with many people who do not trouble about religion in the ordinary trend of life, I hastily invented a soft, warm, tear-misty God, and whispered an informal prayer. Let me get there in time, let him hold out till I come, let him tell me his secret. Now it was all snow: the glass had grown a grey beard.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Life, love, libraries, have no future.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Que rara es la vida! La suerte nos abandona cuando más propicia deseamos que nos sea.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is fun to be present at the coming true of a dream, even if it is not one's own.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell and the portion of heaven in that strange, awful, maddening world...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You are sure you are not coming with me? Is there no hope of your coming? Tell me only this
~ Vladimir Nabokov
So it went on, that obsession and that despair and that nightmarish impossibility to swindle destiny, until a certain first of April, of all dates.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with me? I will create a brand new God and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or ninety, live long, my love)...
~ Vladimir Nabokov
In which portrayed events forever stay. I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I will create a brand new god and thank him with piercing cries, if you give me that microscopic hope.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Mi corazón debe seguir andando. Excepto si tú ya fueras mi destino…
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Did you know the Bible says not to be afraid 365 times? One for every day of the year.
~ Vonette Bright
Thus in the far-away Southern village the world lay waiting, half consciously, the coming of two young men, and dreamed in an inarticulate way of new things that would be done and new thoughts that all would think. And yet it was singular that few thought of two John's, -- for the black folk thought of one John, and he was black; and the white folk thought of another John, and he was white. And neither world thought the other world's thought, save with a vague unrest.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
~ W. Phillip Keller
When my little world is falling apart and the dream castles of my ambitions and hopes crumble into ruins, can I honestly declare, "Surely—yes, surely—goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life"?
~ W. Phillip Keller
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
~ W.C. Fields
People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter—and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.
~ Langston Hughes
I'm looking for a house In the world Where white shadows Will not fall. There is no such house, Dark brother, No such house At all.
~ Langston Hughes
Now I do not understand Why God don't protect a man From police brutality. Being poor and black, I've no weapon to strike back-- So who but the Lord Can protect me?
~ Langston Hughes
I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom whem I'm dead.
~ Langston Hughes