Quotes About Hope

But the dawn did come—at last.

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Half light, half shade,She stood, a sight to make an old man young.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Oh yet we trust that somehow goodWill be the final goal of ill.

Believing where we cannot prove.

And o'er the hills and far awayBeyond their utmost purple rim,Beyond the night, across the day,Through all the world she followed him.

But what am I?An infant crying in the night:An infant crying for the light:And with no language but a cry.

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

The worst is yet to come.

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.

Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

In my preface, I quoted an e-mail message from someone who was upset by the news that neuroscientists had shown that free will is an illusion. She was, she said, "in a lot of despair." My final moral is the title of a song: "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Scientists have not shown this. Nor has anyone shown that there are no effective intentions. This is good news for just about everyone.

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.