Quotes About Hope

Un tempo piangevo moltissimo ed ero pieno di speranze. Oggi rido parecchio, un riso disilluso.

Hai bisogno di uno con una mano grande così. [...] Uno che se ne sta con la mano alzata, forte, ferma, come la statua della Libertà, ma senza quel cono gelato. Solo con la mano aperta, in alto e allora tu... [...] tu da lontano, da qualsiasi punto della terra, vedrai quella mano e saprai che lì potrai posarti e riposare.

Want-- I want-- I want, we want to wake up, to wake out of it, to wake into the light, I want to dip, to bathe my everything in light--

I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.

And then my grandfather explained -in his language- that utopias are not for mortals. And that people are like flies, that the stories they are told must be like flypaper. Utopias are gold-covered paper, he said, and flypaper is covered in everything man secretes from his body and his life. Especially the suffering. And our hope is that its measure is the measure of man, and forgiveness.

Senti, forse ti cerco già da anni, ti cerco disordinatamente, a casaccio, e continuo a brancolare. Capisco che ti sto cercando da molto tempo come uno che cerca una finestra in una stanza piena di fumo.

It's very nice to say 'And if you will it, it is no dream', But what if you stop willing? Or if there's no strength left in you to will anymore?

Bisognerebbe chiarire una volta per tutte perché "un momento brutto" può andare avanti per mesi, mentre un momento di grazia dura sempre e soltanto un momento.

There is breath there is breath inside the pain there is breath

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth.

One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my lot with love, and don't know any other way to go on breathing.

In the empty darkness, we will see the light if we just endure.

Bob] Dylan said, "I don't have to B.S. anybody like those guys up on Broadway that're always writin' about 'I'm hot for you and you're hot for me--ooka dooka dicka dee.' There's other things in the world besides love and sex that're important too. People shouldn't turn their backs on 'em just because they ain't pretty to look at. How is the world ever gonna get any better if we're afraid to look at these things.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

I am the most skeptical of men in one of the most skeptical of professions in a world which regrettably holds out fewer and fewer dreams the older I get. But on the water, fly rod in hand, my dreams never desert me...I am never without hope.

Children always turn to the light.

Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

The seal, the Holy Spirit, is God's fear-defeating, peace-giving promise to us, the assurance of our own salvation.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

Each adventurous genius will still leap at the arduous prize, and find himself stimulated, rather that discouraged, by the failures of his predecessors; while he hopes that the glory of achieving so hard an adventure is reserved for him alone.