Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.
Easter Quotes
The sources for this page are the faith, hope and spirituality pages, not a collection of Easter writing. A few entries do mention the day: Longfellow’s The Spanish Student (1843) sets a scene on a bright Easter Sunday with blossoming trees, and W. H. Auden, in A Certain World (1970), says Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry but Good Friday cannot, any more than Auschwitz.
Most of what else you find here is general. Expect devotional writers and poets, with sources and dates on every quote page. Anything flagged as disputed or misattributed carries a note that says what the editors turned up.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
The soul has this proof of its divinity: that divine things delight it.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. ... The other eight are unimportant.
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.