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“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, ye...”
“Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet we’ll have reached the tropopause, the great belt of calm air, as ...”
“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
“Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.”
“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just...”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
“Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
“...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?”
“It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?”
“Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you hav...”
“...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and ...”
“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
“People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or nega...”
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
“When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions o’er...”
“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”
“You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.”
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
