Quotes About Hope

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die. April 9, 1916 Sorbonne

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

La utopía es el principio de todo progreso y el diseño de un futuro mejor.

Hope is not a plan

The rainbow comes and goes. Enjoy it while it lasts. Don't be surprised by its departure, and rejoice when it returns.

Filipino people, the people of Tacloban, and Samar, and Cebu, and all these places where so many have died, they are strong not just to have survived this storm, but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of this storm. They have survived for a week now, often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention. Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in a shack, to be living, sleeping on the streets next to the body of your dead children?

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat—what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen.

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.

Elle me dit son nom, celui qu'elle s'est choisi: « Nadja, parce qu'en russe c'est le commencement du mot espérance, et parce que ce n'en n'est que le commencement.

The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone and that for everyone it lasts. That the absolute gift of one being to another, which can exist only in reciprocity, be in the eyes of everyone the only natural and supernatural hanging bridge cast across life itself.

It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing would hold you back, nothing, not even me. . . . You could never see this star as I do. You don't understand: It's like the heart of a heartless flower.

Mais il s'agissait de pouvoir recommencer à aimer, non plus seulement de continuer à vivre !

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

La maison de mon coeur est prête Et ne s'ouvre qu'à l'avenir. Puisqu'il n'est rien que je regrette, Mon bel époux, tu peux venir.

J'ai vu ses yeux de fougère s'ouvrir le matin sur un monde où les battements d'ailes de l'espoir immense se distinguent à peine des autres bruits qui sont ceux de la terreur et, sur ce monde, je n'avais vu encore que des yeux se fermer.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

I see beauty as I have seen you. As I have seen what, at the given hour and for a given time which I hope and with all my soul believe may recur, granted you to me. Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.

Et pourtant pour chacun la promesse de toute heure à venir contient tout le secret de la vie, en puissance de se révéler un jour occasionnellement dans un autre rêve.

I should like my life to leave after it no other murmur than that of the watchman, a song to while away the waiting.

Avant de te connaître, j'avais rencontré le malheur, le désespoir. Avant de te connaître, allons donc, ces mots n'ont pas de sens. Tu sais bien qu'en te voyant la première fois, c'est sans la moindre hésitation que je t'ai reconnue.