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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Hope is a pickpocket with both fists full.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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

DAVID MAMET

Speed-the-Plow

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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Hope is really just a variety of fear, all the more painful because it twitches a chance of escape in front of your nose as it slides by.

K. J. PARKER

Evil for Evil


Any little thing can give hope, like a candle in the dark.

CHRISTIAAN MOSTERT

Hope: Challenging the Culture of Despair


Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Last of the Barons


The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

GERALD MASSEY

"Long Expected"


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Human

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If it is hope that maintains and upholds faith and keeps it moving on, if it is hope that draws the believer into the life of love, then it will also be hope that is the mobilizing and driving force of faith's thinking, of its knowledge of, and reflections on, human nature, history and society. Faith hopes in order to know what it believes. Hence all its knowledge will be an anticipatory, fragmentary knowledge forming a prelude to the promised future, and as such is committed to hope. Hence also vice versa the hope which arises from faith in God's promise will become the ferment in our thinking, its mainspring, the source of its restlessness and torment.

JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

Theology of Hope


Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To Be Blest.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man


Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see--in the mind's eye--a path to a better future.

JEROME GROOPMAN

The Anatomy of Hope


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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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when dreams come true, there is life and joy.

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:12


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

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.

PATRIC SHADE

Habits of Hope


To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e'en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Captivity

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