Hope

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The Trumpet of Conscience

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.”

- ROBERT FULGHUM

“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”

- ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

“Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.”

- WILLIAM PENN

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.”

- THOMAS MERTON

“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.” 

- Thomas Fuller

“Never deprive someone of hope... it may be all they have.
”

- Unknown.

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
”

- Anne Shirley. 

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
”

- Anne Frank.

“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”


- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Hope is passion for what is possible.
”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.”


- Unknown

“Now that I've given up hope I feel much better...
”

- Unknown

“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

- ELIE WIESEL

“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”

- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION

"And death shall have no dominion. 
Dead men naked they shall be one 
With the man in the wind and the west moon; 
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, 
They shall have stars at elbow and foot; 
Though they go mad they shall be sane, 
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; 
Though lovers be lost love shall not; 
And death shall have no dominion. 

And death shall have no dominion. 
Under the windings of the sea 
They lying long shall not die windily; 
Twisting on racks when sinews give way, 
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; 
Faith in their hands shall snap in two, 
And the unicorn evils run them through; 
Split all ends up they shan't crack; 
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion. 
No more may gulls cry at their ears 
Or waves break loud on the seashores; 
Where blew a flower may a flower no more 
Lift its head to the blows of the rain; 
Though they be mad and dead as nails, 
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies; 
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, 
And death shall have no dominion."

- Dylan Thomas

Sad love

“The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, 
but that they cease to love.” 


- W. Somerset Maugham

“Love does not die easily. 
It is a living thing. 
It thrives in the face 
of all life's hazards, 
save one--neglect.”

- James Bryden

“Just because someone doesn't love you 
in the way you want them to, 
doesn't mean that they don't love you 
with all they've got.”

- unknown

Love

“For Love is Immortality.”

- Emily Dickinson

“I have loved to the point of madness; 
That which is called madness, 
That which to me, 
Is the only sensible way to love.” 


- F. Sagan

“Love is like a rumor, 
Everyone talks about it, 
But no one truly knows.”

- Anonymous

“Love is a haunting melody 
That I have never mastered 
And I fear I never will.”

- William S. Burroughs

“The best feelings are those that 
Have no words to describe them....”

- Michelle Hammersley

“We are all born for love... 
it is the principle existence and it's only end.”

- Disraeli

“Some pray to marry the man they love, 
my prayer will somewhat vary: 
I humbly pray to Heaven above 
that I love the man I marry.”

- Rose Stokes

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” 


- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

“The greatest weakness of most humans 
Is their hesitancy to tell others, 
How much they love them 
While they're alive.”


- O.A. Battista

“To love is a beautiful, mysterious event; do not miss it. 
Be neither too cautious nor too absorbed. Too many of 
us reason with our hearts and experience with our heads. 
It cannot be so. The heart knows no logic beyond need 
and desire; the head has no senses except the common 
and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is useful in love 
anyway. Rely on your sixth sense, that little voice within.
There is no preparation for or protection from the joy and 
pain of relationships. They are inseparable twins. One follows
another. And make no mistake, love is not gay abandon; 
it is to be courageous, to take risks and be disciplined.”

- Unknown

Love

Unless you can think, when the song is done, 

No other is soft in the rhythm; 

Unless you can feel, when left by One, 

That all men else go with him; 

Unless you can know, when unpraised by his breath, 

That your beauty itself wants proving; 

Unless you can swear "For life, for death!" - 

Oh, fear to call it loving! 



Unless you can muse in a crowd all day 

On the absent face that fixed you; 

Unless you can love, as the angels may, 

With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; 

Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, 

Through behoving and unbehoving; 

Unless you can die when the dream is past - 

Oh, never call it loving!

- A Woman's Shortcomings written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1850.

Famous Last Words

The following quotes I have collected from random websites. They are supposedly The last words of people who soon after died.

“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”


- John Barrymore, actor, d. May 29, 1942

“Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.
”

In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."


- Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789

“I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.”


- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702

“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”

- Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

“Am I dying or is this my birthday?
”

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.


- Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

"Nothing, but death." 

When asked by her sister, Cassandra, if there was anything she wanted.


- Jane Austen, writer, d. July 18, 1817

“Codeine . . . bourbon.
”

- Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968

“Now comes the mystery.”


- Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887

“Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
”

- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827

“Beautiful.
”

In reply to her husband who had asked how she felt.


- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, writer, d. June 28, 1861

"The earth is suffocating . . . Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."

Dying of tuberculosis.


- Frederic Chopin, composer, d. October 16, 1849

"I'm bored with it all.”

Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.


- Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

"This time it will be a long one."


- Georges Clemenceau, French premier, d. 1929

"Damn it . . . Don't you dare ask God to help me.


To her housekeeper, who had begun to pray aloud.


- Joan Crawford, actress, d. May 10, 1977

"I am not the least afraid to die."


- Charles Darwin, d. April 19, 1882

"Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire."


(Farewell, my friends! I go to glory!)


- Isadora Duncan, dancer, d. 1927

"No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end."


- Edward VII, King of Britain, d. 1910

"All my possessions for a moment of time." 

- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, d. 1603

"I've never felt better." 

- Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, d. December 12, 1939

"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring." 

- Richard Feynman, physicist, d. 1988

"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it."


- Errol Flynn, actor, d. October 14, 1959

"I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man."


Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier.


~~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, d. October 9, 1967

"God will pardon me, that's his line of work."

~~ Heinrich Heine, poet, d. February 15, 1856

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit."


From Luke 23:46


~~ Jesus Christ

"Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?"


~~ Louis XIV, King of France, d. 1715

"I am a Queen, but I have not the power to move my arms."


~~ Louise, Queen of Prussia, d. 1820

"Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough."


To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.
~~ Karl Marx, revolutionary, d. 1883

"I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!"


~~ Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, (Archduke Maximilian of Austria), d. June 11, 1867

"Nothing matters. Nothing matters."


~~ Louis B. Mayer, film producer, d. October 29, 1957

"It's all been very interesting."

~~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, d. 1762

"I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room."


~~ Eugene O'Neill, writer, d. November 27, 1953

"Get my swan costume ready."

~~ Anna Pavlova, ballerina, d. 1931

"I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor."


~~ François Rabelais, writer, d. 1553

"Put out the light."


~~ Theodore Roosevelt, US President, d. 1919

"Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die."


Spoken to his nurse.


~~ George Bernard Shaw, playwright, d. November 2, 1950

"I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices"


Suicide note 


~~ Virginia Woolf, author, d. March 28, 1941

"God bless... God damn."


~~ James Thurber, humorist, d. 1961

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."


~~ Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, d. 1923

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."

~~ Leonardo da Vinci, artist, d. 1519

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper."


Executed in California's gas chamber.
~~ Robert Alton Harris, d. April 21, 1992

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."

~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900

"I am ready."

~~ Woodrow Wilson, US President, d. 1924

"Such is Life" 


Executed by hanging.


~~ Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, d. 1880

"It's very beautiful over there." 

(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)

- Thomas A Edison 

"Never felt better." 

(Became ill after returning from a USC-UCLA football game. A doctor prescribed bed rest, a restricted diet, and nursing care. After sleeping most of the next morning, his nurse asked, "How are you?")

- Douglas Fairbanks

"I've always loved my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, and I've always loved my country. I want to go. God, take me"

- Dwight David Eisenhower

"It's very beautiful over there." 

(Suffering from re-occuring pneumonia and semi-unconscious, his wife, Mina, ask "Are your suffering?" to which he replied, "No, just waiting." Then looked out of his bedroom window and softly spoke his last words.)

- Thomas A Edison

"KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you, but cannot see you. Gas is running low." 

(After taking off from New Guinea, her plane mysteriously disappeared.)

- Amelia Earhart

". . . the fog is rising" 

(After lapsing in and out of consciousness for several days suffering from kidney disease.)

- Emily Dickinson

"That guy's got to stop. . . . He'll see us." 

(James died in an automoblie accident.)

- James Dean

"I am not the least afraid to die." 

(Speaking to his son.)

- Charles Darwin

"It was a great game." 

(After completing a round of golf at the La Moraleja Golf Course near Madrid, Spain.)

- Bing Crosby

"I have tried so hard to do right." 

(Refering to his two unpopular terms as President.)

- Grover Cleveland

"Why not? After all, it belongs to him." 

(Responding to a priest who said "May the Lord have mercy on your soul.")

- Charles Chaplin 

“Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.”


- Ethel Barrymore, actress, d. June 18, 1959

"Josephine..."


- Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor, May 5, 1821

"Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight."


- Lord George Byron, writer, d. 1824

The Soul

"True happiness for me,is knowing when I die my soul is safe,the older I get, The more concern I become....."

- Unknown

Love

"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you."

- Unknown

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Unknown

Mistakes

“Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.”

- Unknown

Grudge

"Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die."

- Unknown

Regret

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."

- Unknown

"In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?"

-Unknown

"Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted."

- Unknown

Deep Quotes

I wasnt sure where to put afew of these quotes, some seem to be able to fit in to too many category's and some i just have no idea, but one thing is for sure that that are very deep quotes.

"Whatever it takes."

- Unknown

"Belief is a powerful thing."

- Unknown

"Better to burn out than fade away."

- Unknown

"Feel the fear, and do it anyway."

- Title of a book written by Susan Jeffers, Published 1987.

"Doing the right thing can never be measured by the outcome of events. Judge yourself by what you do, not what happens afterwards."

- Unknown

"What do you want to remember?"

- Unknown

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before."

- Unknown

"Sometimes people put up a wall just to see if you will be the one to break it down"

- Unknown

"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, fear nothing, and never regret"

- Unknown

"You must be the change
you wish to see in the world."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"This we know: All things are connected
like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life,
We are merely a strand in it."

- Unknown

"Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."

- Chief Seattle

"Wherever I go, I meet myself."

-Tozan

Personal

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

- Unknown

"What you think of yourself will ultimately define you, What others think of you has no bearings on who you are or who you might become."

- Unknown

"Wherever I go, I meet myself."

-Tozan

Life

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."

- Unknown

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

- Unknown

"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."

- Unknown

"If you think back and replay your year, and it doesn't bring out tears of joy or sadness consider it wasted."

- Unknown

"In real life, no decision is clearly signposted. It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often well nigh impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose is sometimes - often - neck and neck."

- Unknown

"In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?"

- Unknown

"Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, fear nothing, and never regret."

- Unknown

"This we know: All things are connected
like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life,
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."

- Chief Seattle

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a timw to hate, a time for war and a time for peace."

- The bible