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Quotes About Hope

Despair is infidelity and death.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Oh that moment when Daniel thought he'd lost her to Cam's starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant , he'd given up all hope.
~ Lauren Kate
I have good hope that there is something after death.
~ Plato
I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
~ Compay Segundo
It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I want to go on living even after death!
~ Anne Frank
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.
~ Gabriel Macht
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.
~ Alistair Begg
I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
~ Khaled Hosseini
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
~ Unknown
In death, hope is everlasting.
~ Unknown
Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.
~ Allison Pearson
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
~ Graham Greene
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
~ Barack Obama
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
~ C.C. Hunter, Taken at Dusk
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
~ Horace
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
~ C. S. Lewis
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
~ Annie Fellows Johnston