quotations about hope
Hope is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Work Without Hope
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Children of Hurin
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
GEORGE GISSING
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Hope is a day the end of which we may never see.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
What heart has not false Hope misled?
WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
"What Heart Has Not False Hope Misled"
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
fragment
Sometimes hope become scarce as midnight rainbow.
CHARLIE CHAN
Charlie Chan's Chance
We can have hope even while maintaining a negative--or sometimes simply realistic--attitude. For instance, if you're dying of cancer, you can still hope for pain relief. If you have a difficult-to-treat cancer, you can still hope for new treatments.
LORI HOPE
Help Me Live
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!
EMILY BRONTE
Hope
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
For Self-Examination
I plant a seed of Hope, and ere the tread
Of nimble-footed Day has run the hours,
The seed has grown a tree that woos the skies,
Its verdant branches starred with golden flowers.
LOUISE AYRES GARNETT
"The Tree of Hope"
Those that hope little cannot grow much.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The Hope of the Gospel
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope is the beacon which points to prosperity.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Company