Famous Quotes

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

~ David Almond

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

~ Graham Greene

A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be judged and thrown away from the circle of clowns. And yet he needs acceptance and security from sick society, which is discriminatory far too often. But a man is blinded by other people opinions. He wants to fly and they say, “You moron, you can't do that, it's forbidden, it's stupid.” And a man gives up on his dreams.

~ Asper Blurry

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

~ Robert H. Goddard

I'm really hoping he’s being genuine because I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He’s the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me. I don’t really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who’s only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don’t want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious.

~ Colleen Hoover

Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you. I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us.

~ Lorna Byrne

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

~ Naomi Benaron

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

~ Orson Scott Card

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

~ Neil Gaiman

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

~ Haruki Murakami

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

~ Switchfoot

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

~ George Gordon Byron

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

~ Alain De Botton

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me

~ Ray Lamontagne

Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.

~ Michael A. Singer

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.

~ Robert M. Drake

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

~ George Eliot

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

~ William Shakespeare

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

~ Juliet Marillier

She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.

~ Robert M. Drake

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Can I join you at lunch? She paused. You have every other day. He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. Yes. But you resented it every other day. What makes you think I won't resent it today? Hope. It's what I live on...

~ Melissa Marr

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

~ Margaret Atwood

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.

~ Virginia Woolf

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

~ Christina Rossetti

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

~ Matthew Bellamy

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

~ John Hepworth

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

~ R.n. Prasher

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing to put up a fight, was ill rewarded. For, while averting that revulsion which they found so unbearable, they also deprived themselves of those redeeming moments, frequent enough when all is told, when by conjuring up pictures of a reunion to be, they could forget about the plague. Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

~ Albert Camus

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

~ John Paul Ii

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

~ Mary Karr

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

~ Chester Nimitz

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

~ Richard Ford

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

~ Shiro Amano

Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.

~ Robert M. Drake

Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.

~ Landon Parham

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

~ Sara Zarr