All Quotes By Tag: Hope

“I stared at the trunks of books on the library floor, remembering the pangs I’d once had for a profession, for some purpose. The world had been such a beckoning place once.”

“They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped. Within the stillness, I felt the old, irrepressible ache to know what my point in the world might be. I felt the longing more solemnly than anything I’d ever felt, even more than my old innate loneliness. What came to me was the fleur de lis button in the box and the lost girl who’d put it there, how I’d twice carried it from Charleston to Philadelphia and back, carried it like a sad, decaying hope.”

“Él soltó una carcajada y, en ella, escuché el sonido de la dicha. Escuché pies bailando, el susurro de faldas en movimiento, la risa de los niños.¿Fue ésta la primera señal del amor?En la persona a la que estás destinada a amar escuchas el sonido de los que aún no han nacido.”

“مهما تقلبت الامور امامك، اذا استمريت بأن تتفاعل مع كل شيئ تسمعه بإسلوب مشجون بالعاطفة فستتألم كل مرة. لأن القوة الحقيقة بكل مجلس هو ان تتمعن بكل شيء من نظرة منطقية، وان تضبط نفسك مهما حدث او قيل امامك…. لانه اذا كانت كلمات الاخرين تسيطر عليك فهذا يعني ان الاخرين يسيطرون عليك…. تمهل بكل شيء فالوقت حليفك ودواء لكل داء…..”

“Your sorrow is your sorrow.”

“All men faces troubles.”

“In the silient of his heart, he knows his sufferings.”

“Faith is faithfulness”

“Is there anything like faith?”

“The most surprising and original part of [Lucien Goldmann’s] work is, however, the attempt to compare—without assimilating one to another—religious faith and Marxist faith: both have in common the refusal of pure individualism (rationalist or empiricist) and the belief in trans-individual values—God for religion, the human community for socialism. In both cases the faith is based on a wager—the Pascalian wager on the existence of God and the Marxist wager on the liberation of humanity—that presupposes risk, the danger of failure and the hope of success.”

“Milton had a day to day outlook; if life were not at any given moment positively unbearable, that is to say, if he were not actually cold, nor without a drink, nor alone, he still maintained a vivid faith in the future.”

“The Sun always rises. Unless, you’re on a space station, I guess…”

“I wanted to hold everything in place with my thin little arm and my weak spirit. I wanted to do what I could with my unreliable body to try and deal with all the many scary things that were going to start happening to us from now on. I wanted to try.”

“He told me once it was cruel to give hope where none should be.”

“This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody’s side, in love the dark confirms that we are together.”