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Quotes About Hope

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab, humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
~ Paul Auster
Henry je Mr. Bonesu dokazao da se ljubav ne može mjeriti. Ona uvijek negdje postoji, pa i kad je se izgubi mogu?e je prona?i novu.
~ Paul Auster
Pangloss is an idiot optimist, and I'm an intelligent pessimist, meaning a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but I'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.
~ Paul Auster
??te ben bunun hayalini kurdum Kemik Bey. Dünyay? daha iyi bir yer haline getirmenin hayalini. Ruhun kasvetli, karanl?k kuytular?na biraz olsun güzellik katmak istedim. Bunu bir ekmek k?zart?c?s?yla yapabilirsin, bir ?iirle yapabilirsin, elini bir yabanc?ya uzatarak yapabilirsin. Nas?l yapt???n hiç önemli de?il. Dünyay? buldu?undan daha iyi bir durumda b?rakmak. ?nsan?n elinden gelecek en iyi ?ey budur
~ Paul Auster
Dread has become fact. Innocence has turned into guilt, and hope is a word that rhymes with despair.
~ Paul Auster
Iedere schrijver beoordeelt zichzelf - meestal hardvochtig - en dat is waarschijnlijk de reden dat schrijvers blijven schrijven: in de ijdele hoop dat ze het er de volgende keer beter van afbrengen.
~ Paul Auster
Hector daha ünlü bir y?ld?z olsayd? bu öyküler sürüp giderdi ku?kusuz.Kendisi hakk?nda anlat?lanlarda ya?ar,toplumsal bilincin alt katmanlar?nda yer edinmi? simgesel ki?ilerden birine dönü?ür;gençli?in,umudun ve kaderin ?eytanca oyunlar?n?n temsilcisi haline gelirdi.
~ Paul Auster
Etan Patz se había despedido de su madre una mañana y había bajado a esperar el autobús del colegio (era el primer día después de una larga huelga de autobuses y el niño quería ir solo, hacer ese pequeño gesto de independencia) y nadie había vuelto a verlo. Fuera lo que fuese lo sucedido, no dejó rastros".
~ Paul Auster
Pensi che a te non succederà mai, che non ti può succedere, che sei l'unica persona al mondo in cui queste cose non succederanno mai e poi, a una a una, cominciano a succederti tutte, esattamente come succedono a tutti gli alti
~ Paul Auster
From poetry to justice, then. Poetic justice, if you will. For the sad fact remains: there is far more poetry in the world than justice.
~ Paul Auster
A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?
~ Paul Austerter
Blue sky beyond barbed wire I wish I were sky.
~ Unknown
I seriously doubt that some slave ship ancestor, in those idle moments between being raped and beaten, was standing knee-deep in their own feces rationalizing that, in the end, the generations of murder, unbearable pain and suffering, mental anguish, and rampant disease will all be worth it because someday my great-great-great-great-grandson will have Wi-Fi, no matter how slow and intermittent the signal is.
~ Paul Beatty
It was hard to say if the statement was some sort of suicidal ideation, but one could hope.
~ Paul Beatty
I'd stand still for a few seconds, vainly snapping my fingers with as much hop of catching the beat as a quadriplegic hobo latching on to a moving boxcar.
~ Paul Beatty
I'd stand still for a few seconds, vainly snapping my fingers with as much hope of catching the beat as a quadriplegic hobo latching on to a moving boxcar.
~ Paul Beatty
Sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.
~ Paul Beatty
The impossibility of failure is one of the weaknesses of daydreaming.
~ Paul Bloom
Perhaps more important, religion provides our species' longest and deepest struggle to make sense of suffering, including suffering that is unchosen.
~ Paul Bloom
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Unknown
How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever?
~ Paul Brunton
Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.
~ Unknown
The priest Zacharias heard God saying to him that He would grant him a son. However, Elizabeth, Zacharias wife was well advanced in age and well past childbearing age.
~ Unknown
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
~ Paul Cezanne