Quotes About Hope

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

I've been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I've been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I've been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

And I want out of this life on drugs.

And then I think of the Velvet Underground's doleful song Jesus, from their third and least renowned or appreciated album. It is my favorite. Jesus / Help me find my proper place / Help me in my weakness / 'Cause I'm falling out of grace. The only words in the song, repeated repeatedly, composed by Lou Reed, a Jew. You see, in the hour of darkness, it is easier to turn to the Son of God than to God Himself, for some reason. I'm not sure why.

I've got to go home. Even if such place doesn't really exist.

I don't much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out.

Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It

All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.

You see, I tell myself, here is the reason to stay clean: because life is so ridiculous, and if you're sober, it's funny; if you're high, it's just depressing. Or maybe it's the opposite. But I hope not.

It is hard to get back what is lost. It is more difficult still to begin anew.

If only life could be more like the movies, where characters muddle through things and do what's right in the end. But real life isn't like that.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible

God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands