hope

"Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up."

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake."

"Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters."

"Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again."

"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."

"But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything."

"Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree."

"Dear refuge of my weary soul,On thee, when sorrows rise,On thee, when waves of trouble roll,My fainting hope relies."

"Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."

"Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge."

"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."

"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."

"She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away."

"Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!"

"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."

"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."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

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

"I have come,"said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him."