"Well, you know how it feels if..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.
More by C S Lewis
More on Hope
“Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.”
“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.”
“Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?”
More on Desire
“Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.”
“But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.”
“Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”