Quotes About Hope

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane. It never is, sir. Lane, you're a perfect pessimist. I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

It was always once springtime in my heart.

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

Only love can keep anyone alive...

We are running from our pain to our pain.

The rim of a tightening lung.

So often, thought Rami, the ordinary can save us.