Christopher Morley Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies; And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.