Hope

Hope is a desire for future good.

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 * When we open up about our emotional challenges, admitting we are not perfect, we give others permission to share their struggles. Together we realize there is hope and we do not have to suffer alone.
 * Reyna I. Aburto, "Thru Cloud and Sunshine, Lord, Abide with Me!", Liahona (November 2019)


 * When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
 * John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson (15 July 1817)


 * Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate.
 * All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
 * Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto III: The Gate of Hell, line 9


 * Senza speme vivemo in desio.
 * Still desiring, we live without hope.
 * Dante Alighieri, Inferno, IV. 42


 * If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
 * Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3, p. 44


 * For a moment hope, bright and cruel as a knife, presented itself to me. It took every ounce of strength I had to turn away.
 * C. L. Anderson, Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 7


 * This is what hope does to you when you’re not used to it. It is very like being drunk. You don’t realize how badly you’re impaired until you see the results of your spree.
 * C. L. Anderson, Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 20


 * Hope is the dream of a waking man.
 * Aristotle, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Literally translated by C. D. Yonge; Henry G. Bohn, 1853, p. 187
 * Variant translations:
 * You ask what hope is. He says it is a waking dream.
 * The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book V, 18 speaking of Aristotle; ascribed to Pindar by Stobæus—Sermon CIX; to Plato by Ælian—Var. Hist, XIII. 29, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

Supports the mind, supports the body too: Hence, the most vital movement mortals feel Is hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
 * Know then, whatever cheerful and serene
 * John Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health (1744), Book IV, line 310

Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.
 * Our greatest good, and what we least can spare,
 * John Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health (1744), Book IV, line 318


 * I’ve always said there’s no hope without endeavor. Hope has no meaning unless we are prepared to work to realize our hopes and dreams but in order to that we do need to have friends. We need those who believe in us. Friends are those who believe in us and who want to help us whatever it is that we are trying to achieve.
 * Aung San Suu Kyi, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Strasbourg, 22 October 2013

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 * Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
 * Francis Bacon, Apophthegms (1624), No. 36


 * Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.
 * Evgeny Baratynsky, "Two Fates" (1823), tr. Dmitri Obolensky


 * It is to hope, though hope were lost.
 * Anna Letitia Barbauld, Come here, Fond Youth, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
 * Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea (about 370), Letter to Gregory of Nazianzus; found in A. Von Humboldt's Cosmos


 * HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).


 * Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
 * Isaac Bickerstaffe, Love in a Village, Act I, scene 1, line 1


 * Nature has fixed no limits on our hopes.
 * Björk, "Hope" on Volta (2007)

Who come into this world.
 * I live in hope and that I think do all
 * Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (1898), Sonnet 63


 * Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
 * Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 3.


 * That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.
 * Charles Bukowski, Factotum


 * Everything passes away — suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes towards the stars? Why?
 * Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard

To weakest hope will cling.
 * The heart bowed down by weight of woe
 * Alfred Bunn, Bohemian Girl as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
 * Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786), Stanza 16


 * Hope, withering, fled—and Mercy sighed farewell.
 * Lord Byron, Corsair, Canto I, Stanza 9

For in that word that fatal word,—howe'er We promise, hope, believe,—there breathes despair.
 * Farewell!
 * Lord Byron, Corsair, Stanza 15


 * 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 to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in Byrons Letters and Journals (1975), Vol 4, ed. Leslie Marchand

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The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb.
 * Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
 * Thomas Campbell, "Pleasures of Hope", Part 2, St. 23; The Pleasures of Hope; With Other Poems (7th ed. 1803), p. 67

Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.
 * Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
 * Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I, line 45

But leave,—oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
 * Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
 * Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part II, line 375


 * There's a hope that's waiting for you, in the dark.
 * Alessia Cara, "Scars to your Beautiful" (2015), Know-It-All

(While there's life there's hope.)
 * Con la vida muchas cosas se remedian.
 * With life many things are remedied.
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615)


 * Hasta la muerte todo es vida.
 * Until death all is life.
 * (While there's life there's hope.)
 * Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605-1615)

If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
 * I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
 * William Ellery Channing, A Poet's Hope, Stanza 13


 * This is President Anton Chekov of the United Federation of Planets, broadcasting on all emergency channels. Do not approach Earth. A signal of unknown origin has turned our young against us. They have been assimilated by the Borg. Our fleet has been compromised, and as we speak, our planetary defenses are falling. Sol Station is defending Earth as best it can, but we're almost out of time. We have not been able to find a way to stop this Borg signal, and unassimilate our young. But I know, if my father were here, he'd remind us all that "hope is never lost. There are always possibilities." Until then, I implore you: save yourselves. Farewell.
 * President Anton Chekov (voice over by Walter Koenig), Star Trek Picard Season 3 Episode entiteled "The Last Generation" (April 20, 2023) by Terry Matalas


 * Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
 * Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation-Aspiration-Prayers Part 26 (2003)


 * Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
 * There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.
 * Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
 * Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
 * Compare: "While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow


 * Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.
 * The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
 * Cicero, Oratio Pro Animo Milone, XVI


 * As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.
 * James Freeman Clarke, Self-Culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual – A Course of Lectures (1880), Chapter 19: Education of Hope, p. 411
 * A variant, "As these summer days have roused all nature..." (with other minor alterations) appears as the entry for July 12 in Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Sermons and Writings of James Freeman Clarke (Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1895), p. 180

And hope without an object cannot live.
 * Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Work Without Hope" (1825), Stanza 2


 * And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
 * William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 3

What was thy delighted measure? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
 * But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair,
 * William Collins, The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), line 29

The only cheap and universal cure.
 * Hope! of all ills that men endure,
 * Abraham Cowley, The Mistress, For Hope


 * When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
 * Dinah Craik, Christian's Mistake (1865). p. 64

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 * Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
 * Frank Darabont, in the screenplay for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a story by Stephen King


 * “As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”
 * Samuel R. Delany, Empire Star (1966), reprinted in David G. Hartwell (ed.), The Space Opera Renaissance, ISBN 0-765-30618-2, p. 197


 *  "Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard — And sore must be the storm — That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm —
 * Emily Dickinson, Poem 254 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960), edited by Thomas H. Johnson


 * I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 
 * Benjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, pt. 10, Chapter 3


 * Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and hope.
 * Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1845), Chapter 117

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They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
 * Hopes have precarious life.
 * George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book III


 * Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
 * T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday", part 1


 * Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn
 * T.S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday", part 6

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.''' Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
 * '''I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
 * T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, East Coker (1940), (III)

Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre — To be redeemed from fire by fire.'''
 * '''The only hope, or else despair
 * T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding (1942), (IV)


 * L'espoir ne fait pas de poussière.
 * Hope raises no dust.
 * Paul Éluard, "Ailleurs, ici, partout" (1946)

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 * He that lives upon Hope will die fasting.
 * Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)


 * To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
 * Erich Fromm, The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968)

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 * People cannot live without hope; this is one of the statements I can defend without any reservations.
 * Hans-Georg Gadamer in one of his last interviews, "Die Menschen können nicht ohne Hoffnung leben", Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (February 11, 2002)


 * Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
 * Mahatma Gandhi Young India (23 March 1924)


 * The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of men. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every man.
 * Gaudium et Spes, composed during the Second Vatican Council, promulgated by Pope John XXIII (7 December 1965), Preface

Then why such haste?—so groan'd and died.
 * While there is life there's hope (he cried,)
 * John Gay, The Sick Man and The Angel, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * Bei so grosser Gefahr kommt die leichteste Hoffnung in Anschlag.
 * In so great a danger the faintest hope should be considered.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Egmont, II, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

Ist besser hoffen als verzweifeln.''
 * ''Wir hoffen immer, und in allen Dingen
 * We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
 * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso, III. 4. 197, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.
 * Amy Goodman Conclusion, Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes In Extraordinary Times with David Goodman (2008)

Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
 * Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act II, scene 1

In all my griefs—and God has given my share— I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.
 * In all my wanderings round this world of care,
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 81

Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise.
 * The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
 * Oliver Goldsmith, Captivity, Song, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn't be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mind and heart, by drawing it up into a hard knot, and not having any more hopes or dreams at all.
 * Woody Guthrie, "Notes about Music" (29 March 1946) also quoted in A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen (2000) by Bryan K. Garman, p. 244.


 * No matter how bad the wicked world has hurt you, in the long run, there is something gained, and it is all for the best] … The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine.
 * Woody Guthrie, "Notes about Music" (29 March 1946) also quoted in Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (2004) by Ed Cray

Hope of feelings is slavery Hope of body is disease.
 * Hope of consciousness is strength
 * G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson (1950)

Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.
 * Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
 * Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (1742), Stanza 5

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 * Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.
 * Oscar Hammerstein II, lyric for "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical Carousel (1945)


 * Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
 * Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace (1986), Chapter 5 : The Politics of Hope


 * Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.
 * Mansa to Kwamankra, in : Studies in Race Emancipation by J. E. Casely Hayford. C.M. Phillips. 1911. p. 60.


 * Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
 * William Hazlitt, Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823), No. 34


 * History says don't hope / On this side of the grave. / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme.
 * Seamus Heaney, "Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)


 * Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in his valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University (10 March 1858), published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. LVIII, No. 8 (25 March 1858), p. 158; this has also been paraphrased "Beware how you take away hope from another human being"

A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
 * Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., A Mother's Secret, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

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 * I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
 * Robert G. Ingersoll, speech (1892)

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 * Wherever you are tonight, you can make it. Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but the morning comes. Don't you surrender. Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint. You must not surrender. You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified. And you hold on, and hold out. We must never surrender. America will get better and better.
 * Reverend Jesse Jackson, "1988 Address to the Democratic National Convention"


 * I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
 * Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 8 April 1816, as published in Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (2nd edition, 1830), ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Vol. 4, p. 271


 * When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.
 * Derrick Jensen, Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, p. 330


 * Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free — truly free — to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.
 * Derrick Jensen, Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, p. 330


 * A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems — you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself — and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.
 * Derrick Jensen, Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization, p. 332


 * In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums.
 * Douglas Jerrold, Jerrold's Wit, The Cats-paw, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
 * Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 110, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
 * Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 67 (6 November 1750)


 * Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
 * Samuel Johnson, The Idler, No. 58 (26 May 1759)


 * Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
 * Samuel Johnson, letter of 8 June 1762, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol. 1, p. 103


 * The triumph of hope over experience.
 * Samuel Johnson, in reference to an unhappily married man remarrying immediately after his wife's death, as quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol. 2, p. 82


 * It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.
 * Nick Jonas, in "Don't Speak", in Lines (2009)

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 * Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος
 * I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
 * Nikos Kazantzakis, epitaph, adapted from The Saviors of God (1923)

Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.
 * So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
 * John Keats, Hope, Stanza 8


 * Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
 * Helen Keller, Optimism (1903)

Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.
 * The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
 * Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 16; FitzGerald's translation

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 * L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle est, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable.
 * Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
 * François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 168


 * Hope is a timid thing, Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering; At least, such Hope as human life can bring.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon The New Monthly Magazine (1834) 'The Future' page 303. Re-used in 'Ethel Churchill' Vol. I, Chapter 31


 * Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;— How many hearts have nourished a vain flame In silence and in secret, though they knew They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon The London Literary Gazette (21/9/1822) 'The Minstrel of Portugal'


 * Hope destroys pleasure; …
 * This remark having been questioned by one to whose judgment I exceedingly defer, may I be permitted not to retract, but to defend my assertion? Hope is like constancy, the country, or solitude—all of which owe their reputation to the pretty things that have been said about them. Hope is but the poetical name for that feverish restlessness which hurries over to-day for the sake of to-morrow. Who among us pauses upon the actual moment, to own, "Now, even now, am I happy?" The wisest of men has said, that hope deferred is sickness to the heart: yet what hope have we that is not deferred? For my part, I believe that there are two spirits who preside over this feeling, and that hope, like love, has its Eros and Anteros. Its Eros, that reposes on fancy, and creates rather than calculates; while its Anteros lives on expectation, and is dissatisfied with all that Is, in vague longings for what may be.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, Volume 3, Footnote to chapter 18 (1831).


 * Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.
 * Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Harvard University Press: 2008), p. 103


 * One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
 * Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy; by the side of this passage is a sketch of a cage with a bird sitting in it.


 * If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long
 * The Libertines, "The Good Old Days", Babyshambles Sessions (2003)

The hope to meet again.
 * One only hope my heart can cheer,—
 * George Linley, Song, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

Having naught else but Hope.
 * Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children of the Lord's Supper, line 230


 * The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), Book I, Chapter I


 * Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
 * Lu Xun, in "The Epigrams of Lusin", from The Wisdom of China and India, ed. and trans. Lin Yutang (New York: Random House, 1942)

Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.
 * Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word
 * George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, The Progress of Love, Hope, Eclogue II, line 41

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 * Vita dum superest, bene est.
 * While life remains it is well.
 * Mæcenas, quoted by Seneca, Epist., 101, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
 * Our dearest hopes in pangs are born,
 * Gerald Massey, The Kingliest Kings, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * “Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left. Ely-Eleanor is always saying 'don't use this word' and 'don't use that word,' but she never bans the ones that are really bad. She never bans hope.”
 * Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway, (2016, ISBN 978-0-76538-5-505), p. 30


 * Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.
 * Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, (2017, ISBN 978-0-76539-2-039), p. 43


 * Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
 * Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), Chapter 5 (Often misattributed to Jean Kerr, who borrowed the line)


 * Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
 * Henry Melvill, in "The Advantages of a State of Expectation" in Sermons by Henry Melvill, B. D (1844), edited by Charles Pettit McIlvaine, Sermon X, p. 113


 * So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
 * Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), chapter 48, p. 251


 * And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
 * Harvey Milk, A version of his staple "Hope Speech," quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 363


 * A man without hope is a man without fear.
 * Frank Miller, Daredevil:Born Again


 * Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
 * John Milton,  Tractate of Education (1644)

And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.
 * Where peace
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 65

If not, what resolution from despair.
 * What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 190

Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
 * So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 108

Brightens his crest.
 * Hope elevates, and joy
 * John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 633


 * Toutes choses, disoit un mot ancien, sont esperables à un homme, pendant qu'il vit.
 * All things, said an ancient saw, may be hoped for by a man as long as he lives.
 * Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Chapter III


 * Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
 * James Montgomery, The World before the Flood, Canto V

I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
 * Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour,
 * Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Fire Worshippers

That star on life's tremulous ocean.
 * And tho't that the light-house look't lovely as hope,
 * Thomas Moore,"The Lighthouse", as reprinted in Melodies, Songs, Sacred Songs, and National Airs (1821), p. 64.
 * Variant: I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, ...
 * As rendered in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)


 * With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.
 * William Mountford, Euthanasy (4th ed., 1852), Ch. 11


 * A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper.
 * Muhammad Mizan al-hikma, Volume 10, Page 504, Tradition 7109

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 * A leader is a dealer in hope.
 * Napoleon I of France, Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916), Ch. V : Concerning the Fine Arts


 * Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)


 * Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulus to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it — so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist (1888), Sec. 23

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 * Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
 * Barack Obama, Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, Delivered at the Iowa Democratic caucus on 3 January 2008


 * Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
 * Barack Obama, Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, Delivered at the Iowa Democratic caucus on 3 January 2008


 * The absence of hope can rot a society from within.
 * Barack Obama, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Address in Oslo, Norway (9 December 2009)


 * I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
 * Barack Obama, Re-election Speech, Transcript of Barack Obama's reelection speech as reported by FoxNews.com, (7 November 2012) Delievered at McCormick Place convention center in Chicago, Illinois on November 6, 2012


 * [W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart.… You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
 * Barack Obama, Yangon University Speech, Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon, Rangoon, Burma, (19 November 2012)


 * Only by working together can we preserve those institutions of family and community, rights and responsibilities, law and self-government that is the hallmark of this nation. For, it turns out, we do not persevere alone. Our character is not found in isolation. Hope does not arise by putting our fellow man down; it is found by lifting others up.
 * Barack Obama, Remarks by President Obama at Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers at Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas on July 12, 2016 in response to the 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers


 * Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.
 * My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
 * Ovid, Heroides, XVIII. 178

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 * Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
 * Paul of Tarsus, in Romans 4:18


 * But Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?
 * δὲ βλεπομένη οὐκ ἔστιν ἐλπίς ὃ γὰρ βλέπει τίς ἐλπίζει.
 * Paul of Tarsus, Romans 8:24


 * Now, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
 * Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 13:13, New World Translation


 * We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.
 * Pelagius, in "Letter to Demetrias" as translated by B. Rees, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), pp. 206-210

At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.''
 * ''Nam multa præter spem scio multis bona evenisse,
 * For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
 * Plautus, Rudens, II. 3. 69; Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 71


 * Even after all that, each and every being here believe, that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail. The experience knows that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long.
 * Suman Pokhrel, Heat

Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
 * Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734), Epistle I, line 91

Man never is, but always to be blest.'''
 * '''Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734), Epistle I, line 95


 * Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
 * Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 273


 * A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
 * Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur (1938), part 3, Section 6, Ch. 22


 * “It’s the hope that’s important. Big part of belief, hope. Give people jam today and they’ll just sit and eat it. Jam tomorrow, now—that’ll keep them going forever.”
 * Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (1996), p. 219 (ISBN 978-0-06-105905-6)


 * For hope is but the dream of those that wake!
 * Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book III, line 102

At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.
 * Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim
 * Matthew Prior, To Hon. Charles Montague


 * Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
 * (KJV)

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 * Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium.
 * Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
 * Quintilian, VI. 2. 27

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 * In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
 * Charles H. Revson, as quoted in Andrew Tobias, Fire and Ice (1976)

No, not in heaven.
 * Hope dead lives nevermore,
 * Christina G. Rossetti, Dead Hope


 * Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
 * Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals (1917), Chapter V: National Independence and Internationalism


 * Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
 * Andy Dufresńe (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption, 1994

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Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms Into the Silent Land.
 * Who in Life's battle firm doth stand
 * J. G. Van Salis, Song of the Silent Land, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
 * Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1904)

Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — No night but hath its morn.' Have Faith''. Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one, But men, as man, thy brothers call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, — '''Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind.'''
 * '''There are three lessons I would write, —
 * Friedrich Schiller, Hope, Faith, and Love (c. 1786); also known as "The Words of Strength", as translated in The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) edited by Horace Mann, p. 386

Der Hoffnung letzte Sterne schwinden.''
 * ''Verzweifle keiner je, dem in der trübsten Nacht
 * Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
 * Friedrich Schiller, Oberon, I. 27


 * The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
 * Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto III, Stanza 22


 * Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
 * Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto IV, Stanza 1


 * Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt.
 * All things are to be hoped by a man as long as he is alive.
 * Seneca the Younger, Epistles, 70


 * Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair.
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 3, line 9

The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.
 * Farewell
 * William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 458

But only hope: I've hope to live, and am prepar'd to die.'''
 * '''The miserable have no other medicine
 * William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act III, scene 1, line 2

Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
 * True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:
 * William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act V, scene 2, line 23

And manage it against despairing thoughts.'''
 * '''Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
 * William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act III, scene 1, line 246

Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
 * Worse than despair,
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819), Act V, scene 4


 * Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821), st. 39

Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!
 * Through the sunset of hope,
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, Semi-chorus I, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.
 * To hope till hope creates
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Act IV, last stanza

Are children of one mother, even Love.
 * But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, Revolt of Islam, Canto VIII, Stanza 27

springs up from the tiniest places
 * Hope makes itself every day
 * Naomi Shihab Nye Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems (2020)


 * Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.
 * Simon Soloveychik, Parenting for Everyone (1989)


 * It is never right to consider that a man has been made happy by fate, until his life is absolutely finished, and he has ended his existence.
 * Sophocles, Fragment, Tyndarus


 * Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
 * Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part III, definition 13: explanation (1677)


 * “What hope can a man have,” my father had once shouted at me, “if he has none of Heaven?” Even in 1910 he thought the world a vale of tears without relent. “The hope of enlightened life,” I had replied then.
 * Brian Stableford, Tread Softly, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 3, p. 414 (Originally published at Interzone March 2002)

My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.
 * Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine,
 * Anne Steele, in "The Grace of God", as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 328


 * This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of Life, and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought.
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Inner Light (1 June 1992) by Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields


 * It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
 * Leó Szilárd, as quoted in "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace", LIFE‎ magazine, Vol. 51, no. 9 (1 September 1961), p. 79

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We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
 * We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
 * Rabindranath Tagore, Gardener, 16

I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
 * Behold, we know not anything;
 * Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), LIV


 * The mighty hopes that make us men.
 * Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849), LXXXV


 * Ego spem pretio non emo.
 * I do not buy hope with money.
 * Terence, Adelphi, II. 2. 12


 * Væ misero mihi! quanta de spe decidi.
 * Woe to my wretched self! from what a height of hope have I fallen!
 * Terence, Heauton timorumenos, II. 3. 9


 * While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.
 * Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyll 4, line 42; tr. A. S. F. Gow, Theocritus ([1950] 1952) vol. 1, p. 37.
 * Variant translation: For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.
 * Later variant: Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est.
 * While the sick man has life, there is hope.
 * Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum [Epistle To Atticus], Book IX, 10, 4


 * Spes fovet, et fore eras semper ait melius.
 * Hope ever urges on, and tells us to-morrow will be better.
 * Tibullus, Carmina, II. 6. 20


 * Many are the strange chances of the world... and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.
 * J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (posthumous, 1977)


 * Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
 * Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now


 * As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!
 * Leon Trotsky,  "On Optimism and Pessimism, on the Twentieth Century, and on Many Other Things" (1901), as quoted in The Prophet Armed : Trotsky, 1879-1921 (2003) by Isaac Deutscher, p. 45


 * In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless. During the dark hours of this horrible war, entire nations were kept going by something intangible--hope! When warned that abject submission offered the only salvation against overwhelming power, hope showed the way to victory. Hope has become the secret weapon of the forces of liberation! Aggressors could not dominate the human mind. As long as hope remains, the spirit of man will never be crushed.
 * Harry S. Truman, Address before a Joint Session of Congress, (16 April 1945)

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 * Vestras spes uritis.
 * You burn your hopes.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 68

Dum fortuna fuit.''
 * ''Speravimus ista
 * Such hopes I had while fortune was kind.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), X. 42

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 * There is always hope.
 * Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 film), based on The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien


 * Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.
 * Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles - Book 1 (2006), p. 393 (character of Raistlin Majere)


 * Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
 * Elie Wiesel, in "Hope, Despair, and Memory" his Nobel lecture (11 December 1986).

Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.
 * Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, Dream of Summer, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78


 * As I said, such a possibility is a remote one, and I refuse to allow hope, that winged menace, to find purchase in my heart.
 * Tim Wirkus, The Infinite Future (2018), Part 2, Chapter 10

That joy would soon return; Ah, naught my sighs avail For love is doomed to mourn.
 * Hope told a flattering tale
 * John Wolcot, song introduced into the Opera, Artaxerxes

A child of hope? Do generations press On generations, without progress made? Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray, Perforce?
 * Is Man
 * William Wordsworth, The Excursion (1814), Book V

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass.
 * Hopes; what are they?—Beads of morning
 * William Wordsworth, Hopes, What are They?

Delusive, vain and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow.
 * Hope tells a flattering tale,
 * "Miss Wrother", in the Universal Songster, Volume II, p. 86, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 375-78

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 * Hope of all passions, most befriends us here
 * Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 1,470

Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes, Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.
 * Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong,
 * Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 1,514

Untaught by trial, unconvinced by proof, And ever looking for the never-seen.
 * Confiding, though confounded; hoping on,
 * Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 116

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 * Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
 * Zechariah, 9: 12 - 14 (KJV)


 * To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacriﬁce, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magniﬁcently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an inﬁnite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in deﬁance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
 * Howard Zinn, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, p. 270

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 * Hope is the poor man's bread.
 * English proverb, reported in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651), No. 437


 * He that lives in hope danceth without music.
 * English proverb, reported in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1640), No. 1006


 * Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
 * Traditional proverb, reported in Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals (1702)