quotations about hope
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Hope is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
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
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
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 need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Hope is not a strategy.
RICK PAGE
Hope Is Not a Strategy
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
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
The season of bereavement becomes the seed-time of hope.
HARRY GREY
Sorrow Not Without 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"
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
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
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