Quotes About Hope

And be these juggling fiends no more believed, (20) That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. ... Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus: Some good thing comes tomorrow.

The night is long that never finds the day.

What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Seeming to bury that posterity Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity? If so, the world will hold thee in disdain, Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell. Sonnet 58.13

Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?

Invinge durerea, razi cat se poate, caci tot la zi ajunge si cea mai lunga noapte...

Now my soul's palace is become a prison; Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body Might in the ground be closed up in rest! For never henceforth shall I joy again, Never, O never, shall I see more joy!

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.

Our tears are not yet brewed.

In all my life only that dream is real.

think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I

Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!

I l'esperança d'una joia és gairebé una joia comparable a la joia de l'esperança atesa.

O, that the gods Would set me free from this unhallow'd place, Though they did change me to the meanest bird That flies i' the purer air!

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way." Ã¢â'¬â"¢* May that Almighty Hand guide and uphold us all.57

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do - by the skin of our teeth.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

This was not judgment day—only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

A lot of the literature available concerning depression is, as I say, breezily optimistic, spreading assurances that nearly all depressive states will be stabilized or reversed if only the suitable antidepressant can be found; the reader is of course easily swayed by promises of quick remedy...I am hardly able to believe that I possessed such ingenuous hope, or that I could have been so unaware of the trouble and peril that lay ahead.

sense of the triumph of life over death is at the core of The Myth of Sisyphus with its austere message: in the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do—by the skin of our teeth.

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles...