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Quotes About Hope

I wasn't crazy about this idea, but it seemed less complicated than suicide. All I'd have to do was sit in the dark and breathe.
~ Wally Lamb
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
~ Walt Whitman
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman
I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.
~ Walt Whitman
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
~ Walt Whitman
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
~ Walt Whitman
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.
~ Walt Whitman
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you
~ Walt Whitman
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
~ Walt Whitman
Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.
~ Walt Whitman
Se è tardi a trovarmi, insisti, se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro, perché io son fermo da qualche parte ad aspettare te.
~ Walt Whitman
The past and the present wilt. I have fill'd them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
~ Walt Whitman
The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
~ Walt Whitman
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
~ Walt Whitman
I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
~ Walt Whitman
Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
~ Walt Whitman
Mantén tu rostro siempre hacia la luz del sol, y las sombras caerán detrás de ti.
~ Walt Whitman
am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone; I am to wait--I do not doubt I am to meet you again; I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
~ Walt Whitman
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.
~ Walt Whitman
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
~ Walt Whitman
Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
~ Walt Whitman
Keep your face always toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you
~ Walt Whitman