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Quotes About Hope

I hope that Hector kills you" The breath rasps in his throat. "Do you think I do not hope the same?" he asks
~ Madeline Miller
Und wie lautete dieser Gedanke? Dass mein ganzes Leben bisher aus trüben und tiefen Wassern bestanden hatte, aber dass ich nicht Teil dieser dunklen Fluten war. Ich war ein Geschöpf, das darin lebte.
~ Madeline Miller
He was tired of living among ashes,
~ Madeline Miller
I think; This is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: How long do we have?
~ Madeline Miller
Je pensai : Je ne pourrai pas supporter ce monde un instant de plus. "Alors fabriques-en un autre, mon enfant.
~ Madeline Miller
But even I could not fill each minute with fear. I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom. The days passed, and he lived. Two months passed, and I could go a whole day without looking over the precipice of his death.
~ Madeline Miller
I had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment I could imagine it. As if I peered into a well and far below glimpsed a flash of water.
~ Madeline Miller
We will be back soon, Achilles said, again.
~ Madeline Miller
It will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
Suspiró con fatiga. —Eres mejor hombre que yo. Eso era el comienzo de una esperanza. Nos habíamos infligido heridas el uno al otro, pero ninguna mortal. […] Habría un después tras todo esto. —No, eso no es cierto. —Me levanté y me dirigí hacia él. Puse una mano sobre su piel tibia—. Hoy te has perdido y luego te has encontrado.
~ Madeline Miller
Le habían confundido, le habían atado a una apuesta y lo acosaban. Le acaricié la piel suave de la frente. Yo le desataría… si me resultaba posible y él me dejaba.
~ Madeline Miller
There was a silence. Then Chiron said, "When I brought you both here, I had not decided yet what I would do. Thetis sees many faults, some that are and some that are not." His voice was unreadable again. Hope and despair flared and died in me by turns.
~ Madeline Miller
shine with pride. I knew how painful the death of that hope could be.
~ Madeline Miller
Nel mio petto vibrava qualcosa a cui non riuscivo esattamente a dare un nome. Desiderio di fuga, pericolo, speranza, tutto allo stesso tempo".
~ Madeline Miller
Doua umbre se intind in bezna una spre cealalta, in amurgul ce s-a lasat greu, fara speranta. Cand li se intalnesc mainile, se revarsa potop de lumina, ca o suta de urne de aur revarsandu-se din soare.
~ Madeline Miller
Así es como los mortales obtienen fama", pensé; mediante la práctica y la diligencia, cuidando sus talentos como si fueran jardines, con la esperanza de verlos resplandecer bajo el sol.
~ Madeline Miller
Cross your fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood...simple folk remedies for unfortunate situations. Silly superstitions...but were they based in truth from a past long forgotten? I didn't know, but it wouldn't hurt to just do it and let the Universe do its job if it was of a mind to. Don't you think?
~ Unknown
Losses are not retrievable. They are not setbacks. In the blankness left, perhaps other things come, a new thing, a different shape for the last thing's recollection.
~ Unknown
Here, when you looked into darkness, there was God.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
In your love, my salvation lies.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
~ Madonna
T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.
~ Madonna
At least my cage is filled with light.
~ Madonna
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
~ Mae West