quotations about hope
Sometimes hope become scarce as midnight rainbow.
CHARLIE CHAN
Charlie Chan's Chance
Hope is the destroyer of things.
SIMON MAWER
The Gospel of Judas
Hope is symbolized in Christian iconography by an anchor. And what does an anchor do? It keeps the ship on course when wind and waves rage against it. But the anchor of hope is sunk in heaven, not on earth.
GREGORY FLOYD
A Grief Unveiled
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
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"
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Beatrice Letters
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Do not invest your whole life in one hope.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
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 a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
"Maternal Dream"
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Company
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
fragment
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"
One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
ANNE LEMOTT
Bird by Bird
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales