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Quotes About Hope

MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.
~ Oscar Wilde
The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life is a great disappointment.
~ Oscar Wilde
JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me! GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
A un niño con quemaduras le gusta el fuego
~ Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky
~ Oscar Wilde
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
~ Oscar Wilde
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope, in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
~ Oscar Wilde
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If this night before God's throne should stand.
~ Oscar Wilde
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Si no tarda usted mucho, le esperaré aquí toda la vida.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
A new life! That was what he wanted. That was what he was waiting for. Surely he
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these, there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every Saint has a past. Every Sinner, has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am dazed with a dull sense of pain. I had fed on hope, and now anguish, grown hungry, feeds her fill on me as though she had been starved of her proper appetite.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal.
~ Oscar Wilde
I hope for a light grief in old age. I was born in Rome and it has returned to me. My autumn was a kind of she-wolf, And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.
~ Osip Mandel'shtam
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
~ Osip Mandelstam
Optimism is cowardice .
~ Oswald Spengler