Quotes About Hope

To pluck the fruit of hope, we must be as high as him. (Pour cueillir de l'espoir le fruit, Il faut être aussi haut que lui)

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were all swept away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring.

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.

As good as gold [Tiny Tim].

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

God bless us, every one!

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.