Hope Quote by Marcel Proust

“I was genuinely in love with Mme. de Guermantes. The greatest happiness that I could have asked of God would have been that He…

— Marcel Proust

“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to…

— Anthon St. Maarten

“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools,…

— Emil M. Cioran

“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces…

— Charles Dickens

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and…

— Claire Messud

“In comparison with all this, our little stories of achievement seem pitiful; Too well we know what bitterness of failure, loss, disillusionment, and ironic…

— Joseph Campbell

“It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend all her…

— Whitney Otto

“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life, art, motherhood.…

— Claire Messud

“There’s not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along…

— S. J. Kincaid

“He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be,…

— Gavin Weightman