Quotes about hope
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Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.
Sometimes the spark of generous fire
Revives in vanquished hearts again.
Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.
So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
Contained his anguish.
Each one his own hope.
The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.
"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
What can be done in a sepulcher, they agonised, and what can be done in a hell, they sang. For where there is no more hope, song remains.
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Abandon all hope, you who enter here.







