Hope Quotes

This is the vital difference between Conscious Beings, which we are morphing into organically, and those who are asleep or unconscious.

~ Compton Gage

The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

~ Compton Gage

A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

~ Compton Gage

Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” Her expression turned guarded. “Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life—”“I know,” Percy said. “But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. There’s nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me…and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…”It was hard to tell in the golden light, but he thought Annabeth was blushing. “Oh,” she said…“I’m sorry,” he said. “I just…I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—”“No!” she said. “Gods, Percy, that’s so sweet.

~ Rick Riordan

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

~ Debra Anastasia

All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.

~ V.s. Atbay

There is no hope for the hopeless but there is always some love for the loveless.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Never stop believing that your dreams are eternal.

~ Truth Devour

It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will tell me that I'm deluded but we are all deluded in some way. The question is which is the best delusion.

~ Danny Scheinmann

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

~ Kathryn Smith

It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day – or as he sleeps – simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere – us – I know I have a chance.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asunder.While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History Lesson

~ Aberjhani

He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife.He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was life, she was his. He took her lips and tasted his freedom once more. The subtle tenderness. The hope hidden in joined breath. He took it into himself. Soaking in the peace that came with it.And even as the rustling began he felt still, he felt calm. Scratching and scrapping within the stones, and the rustle of wings. But all Eli knew was the nature of love.

~ Rachel A. Marks

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

~ Holly Hood

Read this first volume and you'll want to finish the next two--300,000 words in total--with the first 90,000 setting the stage for a life-affirming masterpiece, and characters you will never forget!

~ Frank Audrain

Hope is the easiest thing that turn into dust.

~ Prachi Prangya Agasti

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

~ Stephenie Meyer

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

~ Anne Frank

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

~ William Faulkner

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

~ Alexander Pope

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

~ John Guare

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

~ J.d. Salinger

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

~ Pablo Neruda

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.

~ Lemony Snicket

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

~ Pittacus Lore

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

~ Laini Taylor

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

~ Amy Tan

Hope is a waking dream.

~ Aristotle

There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

~ Barack Obama

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not, remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

~ Epicurus

I used to think I was the strangest person in the worldbut then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I doI would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

~ Rebecca Katherine Martin

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

~ Seán O'casey

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

~ Fernando Pessoa

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

~ Nelson Mandela