Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse. There is hope, therefore I live.
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, the unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you.
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, arid deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
Love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
