Quotes About Hope

Sene sovya caba'donde ain dovienya

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams. -From Fog and Steel by Madoc Comadrin

A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

In war, you say a prayer for your dead and ride on, because there is always another fight over the next horizon. —al'Lan Mandragoran

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead.

You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

Well, we'll survive, the Light willing. Some grinned and added, And if the Light doesn't will, we'll still survive.

Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

With his coming are the dread fires born again. The hills burn, and the land turns sere. The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle. The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised. Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. -fragment from The Prophecies of the Drqagon believed translated by N'Delia Basolaine First Maid and Swordfast to Raidhen of Hol Cuchone (circa 400 AB)

Heart of the Dark. Ba'alzamon. Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—

We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Why? Rand thought with wonder. Because each time we live, we get to love again.

When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

The grave is no bar to my call.

WE WILL MEET AGAIN ON TOMAN HEAD. IT IS NEVER OVER, AL'THOR.

He has forgotten how to laugh except in bitterness; there are no tears left in him. Unless he finds laughter and tears again, the world faces disaster. He

But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten, Ogier.

All of you, fare well, and may you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand.