HOPE QUOTES III

quotations about hope

Hope quote

How can hope be false when it is as much a part of the human experience as birth or death?

LORI HOPE

Help Me Live

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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

OUIDA

A Village Commune

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Who turns away from gazing at the sun
Sees its dusk images fill all the air.
It is not otherwise when Hope is done:
Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

EDITH MATILDA THOMAS

"When Hope Is Done"


What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.

HENRI BERGSON

Time and Free Will

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Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Hope is the best possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from Tomorrow.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

GEORGES BERNANOS

The Diary of a Country Priest

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It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Usurper


Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Nov. 13, 1712


Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Conversations with Goethe


Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark

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But what is hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

LORD BYRON

letter, Oct. 28, 1815

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Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009


Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

JOHN GARDNER

In the Suicide Mountains


Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris


Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

GEORGE WEINBERG

Self Creation

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Hope is like a northern hawthorn bush, late flowering but continuing long in bloom. There is an element of speculation in it which faith quite lacks. Thus, faith is for youth, hope for middle life, and charity, which only comes when faith and hope are dead, for age.

B. CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM

Hope


We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

DAVID MAMET

Speed-the-Plow

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