Quotes About Hope

She'd been in survival mode for so long that she hadn't been able to dream about her future. She was finally free to do so.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.

The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul's aspirations!

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

Not in tears should we pray, But in hope, smiling bright, When the glory of day Has forgotten the night!

Every dead hope is a phantom that grimaces over its tomb.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

The present is pregnant with the future.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded…. "What do you have for directions?" And Dad… said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

They would say anything, because they have dreamed this dream too long to be denied.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers

Laughter is a balm for the afflicted, the best defense against despair, the only medicine for melancholy.

It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.

A storm was inside her and she could not subdue it. If she could be sure, if she could hold Lydia again, if she could kiss her cool cheeks, if she could put her finger on that mouth that couldn't swallow, that couldn't cry, that no longer needed her, that no longer knew her, then maybe she could settle down. Hope was the devil, hope wrestled with her and wouldn't let her rest.

Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53

you just have to keep going and everything will sort itself out.

I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

I am not defined by darkness Confided the night Each dawn I am reminded I am defined by light

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.