Quotes About Hope

A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

May the joy we once felt in this place accompany you wherever you've gone.

If the survivor is blessed with strength and some modicum of insight, then he or she may find the courage to keep moving through the bad times.

Because even one small island of success in a river of failure is worth whatever we have to do to achieve it.

She started writing notes and keeping them under her pillow, and then she started writing them on her pillowcase, hoping they would help her have better dreams. And if she couldn't sleep, she could just read them and be reminded of something so stunningly beautiful that her heart would swell and her bones would sigh and for just a second, the world would not seem like it was going to crush her.

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!

I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have yearned towards it so long, and so unwaveringly, that I'm convinced it will be reached — and soon — because it has devoured my existence: I am swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfillment.

It is a long fight, I wish it were over!

You inquire after my health - it is better; but while I remain cut off from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be cheerful and well?

Podrán sepultarme, si quieren, a doce pies de profundidad y hasta ponerme la iglesia encima, pero yo no me quedaré allí hasta que tú estés conmigo.

One hoped, and the other despaired; they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.

O God!  It is a long fight; I wish it were over!

Oh! not for them, should we despair, The grave is drear, but they are not there; Their dust is mingled with the sod, Their happy souls are gone to God!

For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!

Vejo na morte um repouso que nem a terra nem o inferno podem romper, e sinto a certeza de uma eternidade sem fim e sem limites — a Eternidade em que o defunto acabou de entrar —, onde a vida perdura para sempre e o amor e a alegria também.

You enquire after my health — it is better; but while I remain cut off from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be cheerful and well?

Dulce Amor de juventud, perdóname si te olvido mientras la marea del mundo me arrastra consigo; otros deseos y otras esperanzas me asedian, esperanzas que pueden ensombrecerte mas no hacerte daño. Ninguna nueva luz ha iluminado mi cielo, ninguna mañana ha vuelto a brillar para mí; toda la dicha de mi vida se me entregó con tu vida, toda la dicha de mi vida está enterrada en la tumba contigo.

There cast my anchor of desire Deep in unknown eternity; Nor ever let my spirit tire, With looking for what is to be!

Hope soothes me in the griefs I know; She lulls my pain for others' woe, And makes me strong to undergo What I am born to bear.

Sada su sve nade raspršene, zato što je glupan žarko želio ?uti loše o sebi, a to neke ljude progoni kao zao duh.

Put je naporan, a mora ga prije?i tužno srce...

I ought to, and probably shall, remain above ground till there is scarcely a black hair on my head. And yet I cannot continue in this condition! I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat!

?udan je to na?in ubijanja, osamnaest godina obmanjuje me ta sjenka nade piju?i mi krv na slamku.

I swear, on my salvation, he's going to his grave, and none but you can save him!