Hope Quotes - Page 39

Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

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.

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

With life many things are remedied.