Famous Quotes

When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.And sometimes it is enough.

~ Vera Nazarian

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

~ Laini Taylor

The very least you can do in your life is to 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. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Is there a chance?A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?A reason to fight?Is there a chance you may change your mind?Or are we ashes and wine?

~ A Fine Frenzy

...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off.

~ Henry Miller

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.

~ Robert M. Drake

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

~ Robert Ardrey

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

~ Robert M. Drake

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

~ Nina Lacour

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

~ Stanley Kunitz

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

~ Leigh Bardugo

The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.

~ Joss Whedon

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds joy luck is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

~ Amy Tan

Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice:Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that?How?! It must've been magic.

~ Bo Burnham

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

~ Lisa Kleypas

that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing... to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we're afraid

~ Nafisa Haji

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

~ David Levithan

People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die

~ Vera Brittain

I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.

~ Frank O'hara

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. I know I left you once.She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't. I know I hurt you.Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't. I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't. He slid the cloth over her arms. If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

~ Ralph H. Blum

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

~ Jane Austen

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

~ Chris Colfer

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

~ W.b. Yeats

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

~ Alain De Botton

Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.”If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that?

~ Sarah Dessen

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

~ Ned Vizzini

I am hope.

~ Neil Gaiman

At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

~ C.s. Lewis

It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you’re going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you. It counts when it’s hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world’s going to end and you’ve still got a long way to go.That’s when it counts. That’s when it matters the most.

~ Pleasefindthis

Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.

~ Angela N. Blount

Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet about us,half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

~ Betty Smith

Some day soon

~ Lance Said

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

~ Victor Hugo