Top 31 Quotes About Absence Of Hope
#1. It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.
James Fox
#2. The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
Barack Obama
#3. In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
William Styron
#4. And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Patti Davis
#5. God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost perfectly absent from us in extreme affliction. This is the only possibility of perfection for us on earth. That is why the Cross is our only hope.
Simone Weil
#6. A scientist does not have hope, sir. Hope is what a man has in the absence of answers, and once he does empirical experimentation, he replaces hope with knowledge and disappointment.
Michelle Franklin
#7. Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Peace is not the absence of intolerance
Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.
Debasish Mridha
#9. Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#10. At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
Henri Frederic Amiel
#11. After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.
John Connolly
#12. We plead not ourselves, but the promises of Jesus; not our strengths but His; our weaknesses yes, but His mercies. Our way of fighting is to hide behind Jesus who fights for us. Our hope is not the absence of our regret, or misery or doubt or lament, but the presence of Jesus.
Zack Eswine
#13. My hope is not in the absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence of the One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing "will be able to separate us from the love of God" (Rom. 8:39). Nothing.
Kara Tippetts
#14. I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope.
Heather Sellers
#15. Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care.
Debasish Mridha
#16. In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.
Joseph Addison
#17. The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
Daniel Goleman
#18. I really can't stress this enough. If you want to make an impact, don't simply sit idly by and 'hope' for courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision made in determining what is more important than fear.
M.B. Dallocchio
#19. Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty
Debasish Mridha
#20. So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.
S. Jae-Jones
#21. [1.9]The Roman State had now become so strong that it was a match for any of its neighbours in war, but its greatness threatened to last for only one generation, since through the absence of women there was no hope of offspring, and there was no right of intermarriage with their neighbours.
Livy
#22. Peace is not the absence of agony
But the presence of joy of harmony
Debasish Mridha
#23. By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady?
Robin Black
#24. In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.
Mark Sayers
#26. When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory ...
Donna Lynn Hope
#27. The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#28. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
Stuart Scott
#30. Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
E. M. Forster
#31. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.
Debasish Mridha
