Ashes Quote by Katherine Center

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but…

— Andrew Carnegie

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best…

— Hunter S. Thompson

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land…

— Charlotte Bronte

It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky…

— Albert Camus

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

— Richelle Mead

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

— Charles Dickens

I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the…

— Christmas Evans

No matter how tough my life was, I was always looking up at the sky and wishing for good things.

— Mahira Khan

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

— Ned Vizzini

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone,…

— Albert Camus

And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean,…

— Albert Camus

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded…

— Gabrielle Roy