Dante Alighieri Quotes

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

expectation isn't the same as desire

Hope is a dream deferred.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

It is natural to want to have a future.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Longing performs all things