John Connolly Quotes

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.