quotations about hope
For hope will cull a withered flower
And tune a harp with a broken string;
And hope will shed a glimmering ray
Of light on pleasure's ruined shrine.
For mouldering columns still look gay
When summer sunbeams o'er them shine.
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY
"Hopes and Fears"
Sometimes hope become scarce as midnight rainbow.
CHARLIE CHAN
Charlie Chan's Chance
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
Do not invest your whole life in one hope.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The season of bereavement becomes the seed-time of hope.
HARRY GREY
Sorrow Not Without Hope
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
ANNE LEMOTT
Bird by Bird
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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
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
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
If you have a dream, live it. If you have a hope, chase it.
EARL PFEIFFER
Clash by Night
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of Hope
Hope is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a spark of happiness or a single ray of hope?
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Company
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
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