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Quotes About Hope

My heart is taken by you and these mornings since I am a horse running towards a cracked sky where there are countless dawns breaking simultaneously. There are two moons on the horizon and for you I have broken loose.
~ Joy Harjo
All those you thought you lost now circle you And you are free of pain and heartbreak. Don't look back, keep going. We will carry your memory here, until we join you In just a little while, in one blink of star time.
~ Joy Harjo
When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.
~ Joy Harjo
When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.
~ Joy Harjo
You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with your lives and now you are afraid you can never get out.
~ Joy Harjo
We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream.
~ Joy Harjo
Our children put down their guns when we did to imagine with us. We imagined the shining link between the heart and the sun. We imagined tables of food for everyone. We imagined the songs.
~ Joy Harjo
I have no more land. I am driven away from home, driven up the red waters, let us all go, let us all die together and somewhere upon the banks we will be there.
~ Joy Harjo
I will see you again , is one of the names for blue-- A color beyond the human sky of mind-- One third up the ladder of blue is where we sit for grief--
~ Joy Harjo
In the United terminal in Chicago at five on a Friday afternoon The sky is breaking with rain and wind and all the flights Are delayed forever. We will never get to where we are going And there's no way back to where we've been.
~ Joy Harjo
If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now. Forever will be a day like this Strung perfectly on the necklace of days.
~ Joy Harjo
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story .
~ Joyce Carol Oates
When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next thing maybe all there is is just just the next just the next thing maybe all there is is just the next maybe all there is is is just is just the next thing Roslyn's words stuck in her head & she could not stop repeating them Maybe all there is is just the next thing like a Hindu mantra & she was a yogin murmuring her secret prayer Maybe all there is just the next thing She thought, That's a comfort!
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She would become, through the years, a woman who expected the worst, to relieve herself of the anxiety of hope. She would become a woman of calm, fatalistic principles, anticipating her life with the equanimity of a weather forecaster.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Eventually I gave up making cards. There was such childish hope in these cards, I began to feel pitiful even to myself like a dog whose tail is thump-thump-thumping long after everyone has abandoned him.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.
~ Joyce Carol Oates