As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.


Cormac McCarthy

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Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of ...
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Just as my mother loved me without fear, through my rebellion and darkest hour... I can only hope my...
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He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
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I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
JEAN-BAPTISTE COROT
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no g...
ALEX CAMPBELL
For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stre...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
I have a willingness to put in as much time as is necessary for my students. I hope my students will...
JENNIFER OWEN
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, tha...
ROBERT E. LEE
So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be tho...
JOHN MILTON
The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
You’ve carried my heart, all this time. Hell, you owned my soul. Don’t ask me to stop dreaming o...
LORA LEIGH
Coming to the Hope straight out of college is the best move for me right now in my life as I am simp...
KAYLA BURT
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
CHARLES SAWYER
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope....
THICH NHAT HANH
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. ELIOT
...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country’s top relationship coach was as...
DIANE HALL
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It brings hope for my whole family. But it's a little scary for me.
KAREN OVERACKER
The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal li...
HENRY B. EYRING
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...
ANNE BRONTë
Jeanie McCarthy is the love of my life. She's the only woman who really understands me, my music...
JIMMY SCOTT
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
WOODY ALLEN
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET
In the event of my demisewhen my heart can beat no moreI hope I die for a principleor a belief that ...
TUPAC SHAKUR
It is only for those without hope that hope is given.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other peop...
CAMILA CABELLO
wo chhod dete hain jb hm tnha hote hain wo paas hote hain jb mere paas hazaro hopte hain.
SONYY TYAGI
I pack all my love for you in this quote, hope it reaches to you. :)
SANDEEP PRADHAN
This is great for me to be able to join my father. I certainly hope my daughter and my son, who is a...
PETER FONDA
My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had wa...
SARAH J. MAAS
I really would like to spare people from all this. I just loved my dogs with my heart and soul. Tomo...
ANN BLISS
We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from th...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only fo...
OLEG CASSINI
I hope this ends speculation for me and I can do my job and score more goals.
DJIBRIL CISSE
Cross my heart and hope to eat my weight in goslings.
W. C. FIELDS
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It gives me so much hope because this is really what I want to do for the rest of my life.
ASHLEY WHEELER
It is an emotional roller coaster, ... It's my faith that gives me hope, but when I see how people a...
LARRY SNYDER
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the...
ALBERT CAMUS
Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.
SHANNON FANCHER
For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all ho...
CLAUDE MONET
This is fantastic practice for what I hope to do with the rest of my life.
ANDREW BOZIO
This is a big step for me professionally, and I hope it will help my reputation to grow as a profess...
ELLEN THORSEN
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
EMANUEL CLEAVER
I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO
I only hope to be as good of a person as my dog thinks I am.
JUSTINE VOGT
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL
With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what yo...
JAROD KINTZ
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures a...
HERMANN HESSE
I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
CALVIN JOHNSON
Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
ANNE SCHAEF
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
PATRICIA CORNWELL
My heart will always be with the Boston fans. I hope that everyone who truly loves me will still sup...
CY YOUNG
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all t...
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Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my tr...
BIBLE
My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE
My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ...
HERMANN HESSE
Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Throu...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Being able to do this gave me my hope and courage to face this disease I had to face every night whe...
BRIAN GREEN
My hope and my intention is that as long as the board is satisfied with the work that I'm doing that...
JAMES MURDOCH
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
WALTER BENJAMIN
The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happin...
WILKIE COLLINS
For me, this is like my cathedral. But I wasn't using what happened to me as motivation. I just pour...
REUBEN DROUGHNS
I will also try my best to break it and hope to produce enough good football to keep them voting for...
HARRY KEWELL
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me am...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through m...
DANTE ALIGHIERI
I skate with my heart. My family has been there with me for so many years. Now, that's all gone.
DEREK PARRA
Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.
EMMANUEL MACRON
I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't...
AYELET ZURER
I hope I never have to use it. But if I do, it may make the difference between life and death for me...
TED KULONGOSKI
My attitude and the way in which I hear, obey, wait and hope is directly linked to the desires of my...
ANITA DU PLESSIS
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful t...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who n...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my wo...
GUY JOHNSON
Even if I don't have wings to fly, I'll close my eyes and open my heart; then I'll make love my wing...
IMANIA MARGRIA
...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I h...
NATALIE BRENNER
You are giving an eternal pleasure of life that one can give the maximum enthusiasm to make his lovi...
NISHI DE SILVA
The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.
JANE AUSTEN
I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to...
COLLEEN HOUCK
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,...
E.E. CUMMINGS
That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN
All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I ha...
JACK ABRAMOFF
I have been playing well and hope to work on all aspects of my game as I will be gunning for a stron...
CHARLIE WI
Were it not for hope the heart would break.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
We are still holding hope that we will bring Natasha home. I hope we can, but I truly think my calli...
ALLYSON SCHAAF
Pushed into darkness,
the only way out was
to seek light with the
torch of hope and ...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and en...
CHARLIZE THERON
It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS...
your faith and hope are in god.
BILLY GRAHAM
It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about...
CLEMENTA C. PINCKNEY
She is like my sister. I hope she gets back as soon as possible. I'm real worried about her, and I'm...
KATIE RIDDELL
I hope to be an example for all. I hope.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO
Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, ...
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I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, somet...
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I seek your cooperation and support for my candidate. I hope you will consider my proposal seriously...
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All The Pretty Horses
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY
They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY