Bolts Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.

— Berton Braley

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

— John Dryden

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to…

— Anne Brontë

“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn—all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

— Hannah Kent

“When hopes are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath…

— Eric Hoffer

“What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her…

— Mary Shelley

“You’ve gotta give them hope. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door”

— Harvey Milk

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

— Vaclav Havel