quotations about hope
Hope never dies in the breast of man;
It may slumber and sleep for a while,
Then wakes up refreshed, all its troubles to scan,
And meets them half-way with a confident smile.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
It is better to hope than to mope!
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
MARIAN ZIMMER BRADLEY
The Fall of Atlantis
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
The season of bereavement becomes the seed-time of hope.
HARRY GREY
Sorrow Not Without Hope
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
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 is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
VACLAV HAVEL
Disturbing the Peace
Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.
ERNEST HOLMES
This Thing Called You
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"
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.
PAULO FREIRE
Pedagogy of Hope
Hope is not a strategy.
RICK PAGE
Hope Is Not a Strategy
We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night,
Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth,
To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth;
But these go out and leave us with no light.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"