Famous Quotes

His beautiful eyes were full of dread and sorrow. “You’re different,” she whispered.He nodded. “Yes, I am.”“You should have told me how different.”A mirthless laugh escaped him. “When?

~ Dianne Duvall

It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

~ Mari Mancusi

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

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

~ John Green

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

~ Carl Sandburg

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

~ Roberto Bolaño

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

~ Arthur Golden

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

~ Michael Jackson

To hear the phrase our only hope always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

~ Lemony Snicket

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

~ Thomas Merton