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Quotes About Hope

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
~ Dean Koontz
Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you can bear to give it because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope
~ Dean Koontz
it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.
~ Dean Koontz
We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.
~ Dean Koontz
Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...
~ Dean Koontz
We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
~ Dean Koontz
One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.
~ Dean Koontz
When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.
~ Dean Koontz
I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.
~ Dean Koontz
Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...
~ Dean Koontz
Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.
~ Dean Koontz
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small.
~ Dean Koontz
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
~ Dean Koontz
In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
~ Dean Koontz
Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness—it's still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.
~ Dean Koontz
Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.
~ Dean Koontz
When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
~ Dean Koontz
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
~ Dean Koontz
I sure hope she's wrong, because one of the implications of her cosmology is that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come.
~ Dean Koontz
Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.
~ Yann Martel
people move in the hope of a better life
~ Yann Martel
The voice said, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.
~ Yann Martel
hole. The temperature climbed.
~ Yann Martel