Alive Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another- that is surely the basic instinct! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, HOPE whispers in our ear to remind us that we are…

— Robert M. Hensel

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply…

— Rachel Caine

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

“Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No mortal may…

— Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their…

— Maurice de Saxe

“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be…

— Emil Cioran

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

— Simone Weil

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work,…

— Jeremy Collier

Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between…

— Karen Marie Moning