Hopeful Quotes

“I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell when I’m old. I want to have done things.”
― Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life

“The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground.”
― Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life

“See you in the story past the story.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all.

But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.

And when I saw that note in my bag, I thought that maybe I was no longer stuck in a fairy tale, maybe I could be the hero of one.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“The train brought them home, but books could take them anywhere they imagined.”
― Luke Adam Hawker, The Last Tree: A seed of hope

“There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

“If I were not here, this full moon would not be here. Neither would the trees. Or the wind. If my view of the world disappears, then everything that I see disappears too. It’s as simple as that. I began to understand that we were born in order to see and listen to the world. And that’s all this world wants of us. It doesn’t matter that I was never a teacher or a member of the workforce, my life had meaning.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste

“you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle”
― Yaffa As, Blood Orange

“You know the problem with this place?' I tug my arm back again, but he holds fast. 'Besides you touching things that don't belong to you?' My eyes narrow on him.

'I'm sure you're going to tell me.' My stomach flutters as his thumb brushes my pulse and he releases my wrist.

I answer before I can think better of it. 'Hope.'

'Hope?' He tips his head closer to mine as if he wasn't sure he heard me right.

'Hope.' I nod. 'Someone like you would never get it, but I knew coming here was a death sentence. It didn't matter that I've been trained my entire life to enter the Scribe Quadrant; when General Sorrengail gives an order, you can't exactly ignore it.' Gods, why am I running off at the mouth to this man? What's the worst he'll do? Kill you?

'Sure you can.' He shrugs. 'You just might not like the consequences.'

I roll my eyes and to my utter embarrassment, instead of pulling away now that I'm free, I lean in just a little, like I can siphon off some of his strength. He certainly has enough to spare.

'I knew what the odds were, and I came anyway, concentrating on that tiny percentage of chance that I would live. And then I make it almost two months and I get...' I shake my head, clenching my jaw. 'Hopeful.' The word tastes sour.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Stories are not a waste of time.”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: Bookpack Small Case

“But here begins a new account, the account of a man's gradual renewal, the account of his gradual regeneration, his gradual transition from one world to another, his acquaintance with a new, hitherto completely unknown reality. It might make the subject of a new story—but our present story is ended.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow - is the most powerful drug on this planet”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“A teacher's advice can give a voice to a student and ignite a candle of hope in a life filled with noise”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“How we heal the world'

Sometimes I sit in silence and watch the world, how it burns so slowly. The fumes almost stifling, but then I think of love. Of hearts that continue to show mercy. Of a gentle nod from a stranger, acknowledging and existence. Without knowing, it is a truth that love binds us. The compassion of the world has never been lost. Love is our salvation, the very basis upon which we exist. First as thought then manifested in flesh. How love fills the spaces between grief and breath. I do not know how to heal the world but I know that love is how we start.”
― Leonie Anderson

“The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught. I saw hope revive—and felt regeneration possible.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Today is the opportunity that often finds itself hoping that we will use it tomorrow because we forgot about it for about as many yesterdays as we can remember.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Emma smiled. “Hope is a beautiful and fragile thing.”
Unless your hope is in something so much bigger than your plans.
Tears gathered into Kate’s eyes. The words flowed into her heart, bringing with them warmth and truth. Her hopes and dreams were like butterflies. Yet, God’s plans were moving forward, unchanging like the rocks around her. God wasn’t fragile, which meant her ultimate hope wasn’t either.”
― Sarah Holman, Kate's Hope

“Emma smiled. “Hope is a beautiful and fragile thing.”
Unless your hope is in something so much bigger than your plans.
Tears gathered into Kate’s eyes[.] Her hopes and dreams were like butterflies. Yet, God’s plans were moving forward, unchanging like the rocks around her. God wasn’t fragile, which meant her ultimate hope wasn’t either.”
― Sarah Holman, Kate's Hope

“What does not frighten us at sunset is that it will rise again tomorrow morning! Darkness is only tolerated if it is not permanent! The strength to endure the devil is the hope that the devil will soon go to hell!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hope is the powerpack that sustains you through the ups and downs of whatever you’re pursuing.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“You can't live throughout life without mistakes.
They are bound to come,
You only lose when you tell yourself you lost.
You win when you tell yourself, you learned and grew.”
― Sir Oyoma Ojadonor

“She couldn’t stop the smile that flooded her face. ‘We will be neighbors.’
‘More than that, I hope,’ he replied....”
― Grace Hitchcock, Hearts of Gold Collection

“HOPE means Human On Patrol Eternally.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“His words offered the one thing I wanted—hope. But hope was a slippery thing. A dangerous thing. It meant lighting a flame and praying, against all odds, that it wouldn’t burn you in the end.”
― Anna Augustine, By the Sun and Stars

“We all need art and music like we need blood and oxygen. The more exploitative, numbing, and assaulting popular culture becomes, the more we need the truth of a beautifully phrased song, dredged from a real person’s depth of experience, delivered in an honest voice; the more we need the simplicity of paint on canvas, or the arc of a lonely body in the air, or the photographer’s unflinching eye. Art, in the larger sense, is the lifeline to which I cling in a confusing, unfair, sometimes dehumanizing world.”
― Rosanne Cash, Composed: A Memoir

“Be radically hopeful; dream of a better world, dream of better days. I guess what I’m saying really is, be brave enough to hope that things will get better.”
― Jamie Mader, Velcro Hearts: Queer Notes on Love & Healing

“Those who stare us in the face and adamantly declare that there is no hope typically do so out of the deeply troubling fear that our passion will be ignited by the reality that it does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Since within our hearts we secretly want everything in existence to be dirty, we always recover our self-respect and discover light and hope in life.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map

“I was happy.
I was scared.
I was hopeful.
I was excited.
And all of those emotions were real.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“People are not actually alone. Whether they are alive or dead, they are not alone.”
― Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey