Maria Edgeworth Quotes

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The future lies ahead.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

To hope is to contradict the future.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.