Quotes About Hope

there is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace.

I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that I'd find myself doing bold, risky, even outrageous things without hesitation or surprise. I was usually disappointed in these adventures and they didn't have much effect on me, good or bad, but I never quite lost the hope of something better or different.

Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away.

Well, there you are. It's not that these things happen or even that one survives them, but what makes life strange is that they are forgotten. Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies. This is what makes life so droll - the way you forget and every day is a new day, and there's hope for everybody, hooray...

I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing.

I hope that gay gentleman will be safe.

So darned easy to plot that - and always at the last moment - one is afraid. Or cheats oneself with hope.

But what if it were heaven when she got there?

An anxious expression spread over his face as he thought to himself that the time was coming when he would have to give up this comfort, and then that comfort, until God knew what would be the end of it all. In this way he was an imaginative man, and when these fits of foreboding overcame him he genuinely forgot that only a succession of highly improbable catastrophes could reduce him to the penury he so feared.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful.

Leila was untouchable. She was in my heart now, and I'd carry her always, on this earth that every day gives men a chance.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.

Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't gotten to the end yet.

They say things will work out in the end. What if they don't? Then you haven't come to the end.

Safety is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God.

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.