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Quotes About Hope

A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.
~ Mary C. Ames
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
~ Samuel Rutherford
When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
~ Stevie Wonder
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
~ Marianne Williamson
Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
~ Jean Paul
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
~ Martin Luther
When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
~ Adrian Mitchell
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
~ Alice Walker
He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.
~ Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
All the broken hearts in the world still beat
~ Ingrid Michaelson
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
~ Matthew Arnold
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.
~ John Larroquette
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why.
~ Lana Del Rey
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.
~ John Legend
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
~ Lord Byron
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen
~ Sally Nicholls
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
~ Horatius Bonar
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux