Quotes About Hope

wish Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it.

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind.

But now this child has come offering us a way out and I'm going to follow her. Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing, we'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves, we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze, we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world which is our true home and always was.

Well, this is a mystery," said Farder Coram, "and I'm glad I lived long enough to see it. To go into the dark of death is a thing we all fear, say what we like, we fear it. But if there's a way out for that part of us that has to go down there, then it makes my heart lighter.

She felt half inclined to lie down and die. But her body wanted food and drink, and she took this as a sign that her body at least wanted to go on living.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if were are not, said the witch, or die of despair.

Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

Detrás de ellos había dolor, muerte, miedo; delante estaba el peligro, insondables misterios. Pero no estaban solos.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair

La vida es dura, señor Scoresby, pero aun así no dejamos de aferrarnos a ella.

Tutti siamo soggetti al fato. Però tutti dobbiamo agire come se non lo fossimo. O morire di disperazione.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. - Carnegie Medal Acceptance Speech

One day, said the harpy, I will see you again, Lyra Silvertongue. And if I know you're here, I shan't be afraid, Lyra said. Goodbye, Gracious Wings, till I die.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

As long as I live. As long as I live...

They looked as frail and doomed as a dam of little twigs and tiny pebbles trying to hold back the Mississippi. But they were trying, all the same. They'd go on trying till the end of everything.

Suppose it never stops? she whispered. The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood. It feels as if it's going on forever. There isn't enough water in all the world to do that. Eventually it'll stop and the sun'll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down.

Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.

When you're young, you do think that things last forever

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 towards the sun, and walked into the sky.

All she could do was hope, and she kept trying to do that in spite of the fear and loneliness.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair.

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

Themes that are too large for adult fiction can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book - Philip Pullman (Hunt and Lenz, 2001, p. 122 as cited by Hunt, 2005, p. 204)