Quotes About Hope

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.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

Sometimes even in most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

It takes years for the land to recuperate from a fire, but even in the darkest of ashes eventually something can grow.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.

Sometimes the things you've lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there's always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Así pues, a menos que hayáis sido muy, muy afortunados, sabréis que una buena y larga sesión de llanto a menudo puede haceros sentir mejor, aunque vuestras circunstancias no hayan cambiado lo más mínimo.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment.

You're noble enough, Baudelaires. That's all we can ask for in this world.

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, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

That, Beatrice, is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.

Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.