Quotes About Hope

You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.

the image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

All of us are grieving something. But while we are, we're putting one foot in front of the other. We're waking up to see another day. We're pushing through uncertainty, even if we can't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.

Where there is support, there is no grief.

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

What became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.

After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.

I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one.

Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.

Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.

Someone who was happy would have little need to hope for change. But, conversely, an optimistic person was that way because he wanted to believe in something better than his reality. He started wondering if there were exceptions to the rule: if happy people might be hopeful, if the unhappy might have given up any anticipation that things might get better.

So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last. Ask instead: would you do it? Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different.

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

It was, unbelievably, not the most depressing thing we had ever seen: a bride, ripped from her own wedding, separated from her groom, and put on a transport to Auschwitz. On the contrary, it gave us hope. It meant that no matter what was happening in this camp, no matter how many Jews they managed to round up and kill, there were still more of us out there: living lives, falling in love, getting married, assuming that tomorrow would come.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.

She knew all sorts of four letter words now; they just weren't the ones that most people considered foul language. Love. Help. Rape. Stop. Then.

My biggest hope for Jacob is that moments like this won't happen. My biggest fear: that they will, and I won't always be there to keep people from thinking the worst of him.

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help.