HOPE QUOTES
quotations about hope
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
You can't lose hope when it's hopeless. You gotta hope more, then put your fingers in your ears and go: "Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!"
PHILIP J. FRY
"Godfellas", Futurama
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes -- or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two -- is gone.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
A Testament of Hope
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Nov. 13, 1712
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac
Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
BARACK OBAMA
speech
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
NORMAN MAILER
The Big Empty
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON
Apothegms
The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.
VICTOR HUGO
Les Misérables
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Animal Dreams
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart,
Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Sometimes at dusk, when you were trying to relax and not think of the general stagnation, the Garbage God would gather a handful of those choked-off morning hopes and dangle them somewhere just out of reach; they would hang in the breeze and make a sound like delicate glass bells, reminding you of something you never quite got hold of, and never would.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Rum Diary
Hope simply deals with possibilities. If something is still possible--even in our wildest dreams--if there is still a glimmer of hope, it is worth hanging on to for as long as it exists.
PETER G. DOUMIT
What I Know about Baseball is What I Know about Life
The universe is energy that responds to expectations.
JAMES REDFIELD
The Celestine Prophecy
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Unpopular Essays