Quotes About Hope

Do not succumb to darkness. Lack of hope, as I learned long ago, is a deadly affliction. And in one so highly regarded as you, it is not merely a blight on one precious soul, but a contagion that may leave many in darkness. Recall that the light you bear, though it may flicker, yet illuminates the path for our people. Bear it. For in this world there is no alternative.

The words of prayer are like birds, Ester," he said gently. "They soar.

This blessing," she said to him. "To dream such glad dreams that you wake laughing.

Yet a moment later she resumed walking with the air of someone too depleted for skepticism—her defeat displaced, unaccountably, by trust.

Can you imagine, Lizabeta chided me for my anger? I, who was nursed on her sorrow. Yet she said she'd not succeeded with me—for she'd hoped to teach me to despise a prison, be it made at the hand of the Inquisition or by my own heart.

Love didn't fail, Constantina. Only one love did. It failed because we asked too much of it, he and I. We each, in our own time, asked it to remake the world.

I told her: I act such that love will not fail again as it failed us before.

A sickening hope, like a gall in her stomach. 7 November 4, 2000 London Helen was stiff with chill.

Hope against reason: an opiate she'd long abandoned.

he loved her as a foundering ship loves a lighthouse, even though the lighthouse is powerless to save it.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

Nihilism is not the last word. The last word is imagination.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.

There is something that mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Yo sé que tiene alas. Que por las noches sueña en alta voz la brisa de plata de sus ruedas. Yo sé que tiene alas. Que canta cuando vuela dormida, abriendo al sueño una celeste senda. Yo sé que tiene alas. Que volando me lleva por prados que no acaban y mares que no empiezan. Yo sé que tiene alas. Que el día que ella quiera, los cielos de la ida ya nunca tendrá vuelta.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.

A lo largo de esa semana comprendió que los libros podían ser una tabla de salvación en un océano de silencio y pena.

No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light. The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret... It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?' I said, Faith. And love, she said. faith is a kind of love you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong.