Quotes About Hope

If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I am half agony, half hope.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Time, time will heal the wound.

We women love longest even when all hope is gone.

Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.

its healing powers, on a disappointed heart

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Well, well, said he, do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was as to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection.

My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Si entonces no se acerca a mí, pensaba, me olvidaré de él para siempre.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.

I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.

She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the room, as to make him play as unsuccessfully as herself