Quotes About Hope

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

Nothing tears the heart like a glimpse of happiness.

Of the Wobblies, most probably, but not just them. Of hope, perhaps, that her country might rise to the challenge, might override the legacies of slavery, Indian slaughters, and tenement squalor and actually place itself at the forefront of human progress.

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.

To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.

Although I cannot prove this scenario, I know it—and isn't that the ultimate definition of faith? Knowing what we can't know. Seeing what isn't there.

the trail, at infrequent posts, the weary Saints would

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

I keep repeating that wherever there is life, there is hope. One day my fate will change.

But, golly gee, javelins are sharp! I shouldn't harp on such things, But I hope there's not an accident! You know, excrement does happen. Even to the sons of kings.

On long trek after Peetee hung caller, I concluded there was nothin' more I could do but play out game of death. Maybe, somehow, I'd earn us time. Time

We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

Quien está vivo y no puede con la vida necesita una mano que aparte un tanto la desesperación que le infunde su destino. KAFKA

Cela fini toujours ainsi, par les souvenirs. On pourrait croire que tout va s'arranger.

Si un pays entier vous rejette, que faut-il espérer d'un homme?

Sólo el silencio puede sustentar el avance de los supervivientes.

Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.

Il avait imaginé que le temps et l'éloignement lui permettraient de panser sa douleur.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.