Hope - Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
It`s too late... With all hope extinguished
in Death`s ice-hut shall we two be brought
to hug in final sum.
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
One of the big reliefs for the atheist is not having to worry about what to hope, wish, and pray for. Did I want to pray for my mother`s suffering to end? Did I want to hope for her death? I didn`t have to worry about that. I could hope one day that she`d live longer so I could talk to her, and wish the next day that she would die and not have to suffer her paralysis and physical loss any longer. My wishing and hoping were inert; I could let them run wild. I could use them as pure solace.
No field of victory, nor servile rope,
but a soft bed will be my end, I hope.
When, come what may, the inventory's done,
I died of life - I'm not the only one.
I hope no one reading this book thinks that "The exception proves the rule" means that if you have an exception, it means the rule is true. That`s just bugnutty. I had it explained to me as "The exception tests the rule." Also not true. The exception does not test the rule - it disproves the rule.
- A question, before you go. What is the truth?
- We place faith in ourselves. We see the world the way it really is and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.
- What is the world, then?
- An illusion. One of which can either submit to - like most do - or transcend.
- What is it to transcend?
- To recognize nothing is true and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
For all that is worth remembering in life is the poetry of it. Fear is poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry, hatred is poetry; contempt, jealousy, remorse, admiration, wonder, pity, despair, or madness are all poetry.
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come
Whispering `It will be happier`.
You couldn`t hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that`d make the world, in a small way, a better place.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.