Quotes About Hope

We're all going to be little brown gophers. We'll all have to learn to dig down in the rubble and find the good things, because that's where they'll be.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an indeterminable ennui.

And yet, even if one person finds his way . . . that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.

Spegnetevi, vane luci, più non brillate! Non v'è notte nera a sufficienza per chi, In preda alla disperazione, piange la persa fortuna. La luce altro non fa che svelare la vergogna.

shoulder blades like broken wings.

Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope

Just when you thought that things couldn't get any worse, you find out that they've always been a lot worse than you thought they were. And then they get worse.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know.

It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

We'll find a way. There is a way. We just don't know it yet. Don't stop….

I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart.

Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.

As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that.

She turned away. Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. But they weren't alone. So Lyra and her dæmon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Hepimiz kadere tabiyiz, ama hepimiz sanki deÄŸilmiÅŸiz gibi hareket etmeliyiz. dedi Cad?. Yoksa umutsuzluktan ölürüz.

She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they'd be able to talk about it....

They were all looking at Mary, and she felt more than ever like the new pupil at a school where they had high expectations of her. She also felt a strange flattery: the idea of herself as swift and darting and birdlike was new and pleasant, because she had always thought of herself as dogged and plodding. But along with that came the feeling that they'd got it terribly wrong, if they saw her like that; they didn't understand at all; she couldn't possibly fulfill this desperate hope of theirs.

Maybe so," he said, "but whatever little chance of safety there is, I want her to have it.

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.