Hope Lost Quotes

I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the middle class in our community. I witnessed hope turn to hardship as a once-thriving city reckoned with a fast-changing world.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

52 years ago we [Pakistan] started with a beacon of hope and today that beacon is no more and we stand in darkness.

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.