We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?
He's solid. "You're fractured. " He's hopeful. "You're hopeless. " He's always there. "You're half there. " He's faithful. "You're so not. " He's giving. "You're afraid to give. " He's honest. "You lie all the time. " He's loving. "You don't know how to love.
It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
What is your favorite word?” “And. It is so hopeful.
. . . it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
