Quotes About Hope

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

Unlike longings, hopes, or even concrete goals, these affirmations can manifest in every moment when you hold them in your heart. Then you naturally and easily behave in accordance with your dream, accessing the tremendous power of courage.

God impresses His writers to speak to our needs, to tell us of sin when we need a message of judgment, and to tell us of hope when our hearts are weary. The Old Testament stories are much more than simply stories. They are powerful sermons driven by the conviction that God is Master of the universe and Lord of our lives.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or prizes or for being "taken up" by prominent art lovers. I simply hoped I could learn to do something well.

When you're young, no matter how many unpleasant things have happened to you (unless by that time you've become hopelessly neurotic), hope returns daily, even hourly. The sight of a beautiful person, bird, tree, house, flower can lift your spirits like a thermal does the wings of a gliding gull!

Tengo miedo y no puedo vivir en este mundo y lo quiero, claro que lo quiero, pero no sé cómo se hace.

Y si nos vamos anticipando de sonrisa en sonrisa hasta la última esperanza?

Inútil explicar mis silencios. En el fondo de mí hay siempre una espera primitiva de un cambio mágico.

Aunque es tarde, es noche, y tú no puedes. Canta como si no pasara nada.

Remember it . Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.

Es decir que anhelo un golpe de hacha que quiebre mis ramas actuales. Quedarme desnuda y esperar sonriente.

Creo que lo que me excitaba de tal manera extrema era la idea poética de morir haciendo el amor. Además, la debilidad aliada a la fiebre me sumergían en esa zona sin relación con lo cotidiano en la que siempre deposité mi única esperanza y que hasta esa noche yacía en un imperio soñado de acceso imposible a causa de su irrealidad.

The darkening brilliance of dreams that drowned. Painful Water.

si no murió, aunque espero que sí y espero, naturalmente, que haya sido de una muerte grotesca y terrible como por ejemplo cáncer en el culo),

Dónde dejar mis ojos, cuándo augurarles una estación amable. Quiero decir: lo que muero cada noche, mis huesos torcidos por abrazar una sombra.

on the other edge of the night love is possible take me there

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

But you I want to look at until your face fades from my fear, like a bird stepping away from the sharp edges of night. — Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. by Yvette Siegert, from Extracting the Stone of Madness: "Paths of the Mirror