Quotes About Hope

The past can be as difficult to imagine as the future. It would be helpful in life, as in confusing books, to have an author, if that's the right word, explaining to us everything we find bewildering, in the hopes we all might feel better.

You would do well to be less particular. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

I confess that if I were in Violet's place, with only a few minutes to open a locked suitcase, instead of on the deck of my friend Bela's yacht, writing this down, I probably would have given up hope. I would have sunk to the floor of the bedroom and pounded my fists against the carpet wondering why in the world life was so unfair and filled with inconveniences.

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 mornings.

window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any

The dark was real, though. It almost always is. The

the world, no matter how monstrously it may be threatened, has never been known to succumb entirely. The

Ike always loved the sunshine, and I like to imagine that wherever he is now, it's as sunny as can be. Of course, nobody knows what happens to you after you die, but it's nice to think of my husband someplace very, very hot, don't you think?

Talán nem igazi erkölcsi mondanivaló az, hogy "itt vannak egymásnak", de nekik, hármuknak legalább vigaszt nyújtott ez a gondolat. Az, hogy "itt vannak egymásnak", éppen annyit jelentett a számukra, mint a viharban hányódónak a mentÅ'hajó, és Å'k tudták, hogy ez valójában mekkora szerencse.

We're not out of the woods yet.

Lemony Snicket

But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering—but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.

So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. So

Wishing is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake

What can I do?" Klaus asked. "You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.

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.

In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes.

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

Ha csak olyan történeteket szeretsz, amelyek jól végzÅ'dnek, szerencsésebb, ha más olvasmányt választasz.

Várni, az élet egyik nehéz dolga.

I don't know if we have everything necessary to be victorious over cruelty and chaos," I said. She looked up from her typewriter and tilted her hat at me. "What is necessary?" "Cruelty and chaos," I said, and stood up.

I think the survivor is here," the scout said quietly, and removed his mask to reveal his face at last. "I'm Quigley Quagmire," he said, "I survived the fire that destroyed my home, and I was hoping to find my brother and sister.

Lemony Snicket

I swung back and forth like a ship in a storm, with the clouds swirling over me like the sea. The sky was still there. No one had drained it away.