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Quotes About Hope

If I think, everything is lost.
~ Paul Cezanne
Wherever one went the world was blooming. And yet despair gave birth to poetry.
~ Paul Celan
I Hear that the Axe has Flowered I hear that the axe has flowered, I hear that the place can't be named, I hear that the bread which looks at him heals the hanged man, the bread baked for him by his wife, I hear that they call life our only refuge.
~ Paul Celan
You are light: you will sleep through my Spring till it's over. I am lighter: in front of strangers I sing.
~ Paul Celan
Una palabra — vos sabés: un cadáver. Vamos a lavarla vamos a peinarla, vamos a volver su ojo hacia el cielo.
~ Paul Celan
Nachts, wenn das Pendel der Liebe schwingt zwischen Immer und Nie, stößt dein Wort zu den Monden des Herzens und dein gewitterhaft blaues Aug reicht der Erde den Himmel. Aus fernem, aus traumgeschwärztem Hain weht uns an das Verhauchte, und das Versäumte geht um, groß wie die Schemen der Zukunft. Was sich nun senkt und hebt, gilt dem zuinnerst Vergrabnen: blind wie der Blick, den wir tauschen, küßt es die Zeit auf den Mund.
~ Paul Celan
Algo de tal-qual- mão, algo de tenebroso, veio junto com o mato: Depressa -- desesperos, seus oleiros! --, depressa a hora ofereceu o barro, depressa a lágrima estava ganha:-- mais uma vez, com cacho azulado, acercou-nos, este hoje
~ Paul Celan
Encréspate, ola! ¡Pez, atrévete a salir! Donde hay agua se puede vivir otra vez, otra vez invocar al mundo al cantar a coro con la muerte, otra vez gritar desde el desfiladero: mirad, estamos al abrigo, mirad, la tierra era nuestra, mirad, ¡cómo cortamos el camino a la estrella!
~ Paul Celan
Von der sinkenden Walstirn les ich dich ab – du erkennst mich, der Himmel stürzt sich in die Harpune, sechsbeinig hockt unser Stern im Schaum, langsam hißt einer, der's sieht, den Trosthappen: das balzende Nichts.
~ Paul Celan
The future's better than the past. Or what's the point?
~ Unknown
That would be an actual miracle," said Lizzie. "I never was sure what I thought about those.
~ Unknown
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes
~ Unknown
See the stone set in your eyes,see the thorn twist in your side.I wait for you
~ Unknown
I can stand up for hope, faith, love But while I'm getting over certainty Stop helping God across the road Like a little old lady
~ Unknown
A man will rise,a man will fall.From the shear face of love like a fly from the wall
~ Unknown
God is love and love is evolution's best day
~ Unknown
We're gonna make it all the way to the light, but I know i'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight
~ Unknown
Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.
~ Unknown
America is not just a country. It's an idea.
~ Unknown
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
~ Paul David Tripp
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
~ Paul David Tripp
The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.
~ Paul David Tripp
We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.
~ Paul David Tripp
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
~ Paul David Tripp