Hope Quotes

Hope, tell me how could it be possible that grief and happiness are scattered all over the world so unevenly? Why do some people get all the troubles and misfortunes while the others are intoxicated with the abundance of material belongings, fat bellies and money? Why is there such injustice? Or, maybe, we are mistaken it’s unfair!?

~ Igor Eliseev

Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.

~ Igor Eliseev

People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

~ Igor Eliseev

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?

~ Igor Eliseev

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

~ Igor Eliseev

I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner world visible, that gives a chance to look at oneself from outside – everything is beautiful, even us.

~ Igor Eliseev

We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.

~ Igor Eliseev

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

~ Igor Eliseev

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be treated as if they are not human beings, that life finds its sense only in the midst of great sufferings and tribulations, that is difficult to smile to people who hate or despise you, that people’s desires are primitive and life is complicated, that writing a book is equal to lounging, that being a human is rather easy but seems to be quite superfluous to an average person. Perhaps my books are about worthwhile things that don’t seem to exist but is encountered every day.

~ Igor Eliseev

And now, it turns out that our mother’s name means benevolence and generosity to people as objects of love! This is both a unique and beautiful name, Charity. “It was one of life’s cruel ironies,” I thought, “that a midwife, or whoever filled in the documents, must have known our mom’s name. I suppose she had a lot of fun naming us Hope and Faith! Or, on the contrary, she sympathized.

~ Igor Eliseev

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one’s faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

~ Igor Eliseev

Oh, this tormenting concern that your neighbor’s life might be better than yours! And how great it feels when you realize that the truth is exactly the opposite; and we’re not so different after all. Nоthing brings true neighbors together like a little friendly competition.

~ Igor Eliseev

All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to plunge into this fairy world entirely, settle down and live there. So why didn’t I feel happy when it happened for real?

~ Igor Eliseev

I should be grateful to the knife that’s curing me for being so sharp.

~ Igor Eliseev

People have no limits either in love or in hatred. But is it their fault? They despise us because they are afraid, for we remind them that getting crippled or sick might happen to anyone; or, perhaps, the true reason of their hatred lies much deeper inside, stemming from the hidden ugliness of their own souls?

~ Igor Eliseev

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

~ Igor Eliseev

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

~ Igor Eliseev

Would he as well neglect the perishing person, wouldn’t he help to get up, would he turn away? I think I know the answer is obvious. He was flying so high above each of us that after falling down he got below everybody else. To be precise, he was simply knocked down. And we, none of us, just did nothing. Thus, with everybody’s silent acquiescence, the best of us were eliminated in order to let others decay.

~ Igor Eliseev

What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had which name and swapped them around by mistake? You always believe that everything is going to be all right, and your faith helps me.”“And you hope that it will be that way. We have this close bond between us,” and, after thinking a while, you added, “All people need hope, no one can live without it; and our hope is way stronger when it is warmed up by faith. So it isn’t really important who is Faith and who is Hope; the main thing is that we are connected together.

~ Igor Eliseev

What is the point of living if we are going to die anyway? What difference does it make if it’s going to happen now or later? All we have to do is to take a step and jump off; that will resolve all problems, answer all questions at a time. And what if we are already flying down? We have jumped off, – perhaps, right after the birth, – not even knowing about it! The ground is already near; we just have the last moment to live and finally realize we are already dead for a long time.

~ Igor Eliseev

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

~ Igor Eliseev

Hope, what if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had which name and swapped them around by mistake? You always believe that everything is going to be all right, and your faith helps me.”“And you hope that it will be that way. We have this close bond between us,” and, after thinking a while, you added, “All people need hope, no one can live without it; and our hope is way stronger when it is warmed up by faith. So it isn’t really important who is Faith and who is Hope; the main thing is that we are connected together.

~ Igor Eliseev

Do not expect much from humans.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: “Stop and thank luck because such fate didn’t befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way”.

~ Igor Eliseev

As I walk I mediate on the word of God. It comforts me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,” Kirkland said.

~ Mary Jo Putney

Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.

~ Debasish Mridha

The triumph of hope over experience.

~ Jojo Moyes

Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope—and she replies,“Believe it not-it is not so!

~ Anne Brontë

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

~ Allan Mcleod Cormack

You Are Not the Same as Yesterday You Were.

~ Behnam Rajabpoor

Life is like the clouds we see everyday.The dark,white patches and its mixtures.These are what we see and experience everyday.

~ Seyi Ayoola

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

~ Debasish Mridha

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

~ Nora Roberts

To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.

~ Debasish Mridha

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

~ Clementine Von Radics

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

~ John Green

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

~ J.k. Rowling

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling.

~ Colleen Hoover