Carson McCullers Quotes

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

Hope is merely another face of desire.

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

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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

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

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Hope is a dream deferred.

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.

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

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

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.

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

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.

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

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.