HOPE QUOTES III

quotations about hope

Hope quote

One thing you cannot know:
The sudden extinction of every alternative,
The unexpected crash of the iron cataract.
You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.
You only know what it is not to hope:
You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you
Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless
Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

T. S. ELIOT

The Family Reunion


Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

SAMUEL SMILES

Self-Help

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Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

GEORGE WEINBERG

Self Creation

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There is always hope...only because it's the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet.

GALEN

Crusade


It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Usurper


Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

JOHN GARDNER

In the Suicide Mountains


Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims


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


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

DAVID MAMET

Speed-the-Plow

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Hope is a pickpocket with both fists full.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009


Hope is like a northern hawthorn bush, late flowering but continuing long in bloom. There is an element of speculation in it which faith quite lacks. Thus, faith is for youth, hope for middle life, and charity, which only comes when faith and hope are dead, for age.

B. CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM

Hope


At home or abroad, on land, on sea, in prosperity or in adversity, hope's beaming star ever lights us, sometimes feeble, but oftener bright; sometimes weak, but oftener strong. Hope is the murderer's cell, and with the shipwrecked mariner on the desert isle; in the palace, and in the cot; it is shining with surpassing splendour by the dying bed of the Christian, and flickering round the couch of the infidel. Hope met our first parents in Eden, and will be with the last man on earth. Hope is part of our immortality; we hope on, and we hope ever.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Hope", Short Essays


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


What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.

HENRI BERGSON

Time and Free Will

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The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

GERALD MASSEY

"Long Expected"


Where there is no hope there can be no endeavour.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust


Who turns away from gazing at the sun
Sees its dusk images fill all the air.
It is not otherwise when Hope is done:
Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

EDITH MATILDA THOMAS

"When Hope Is Done"


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

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:12


Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

BENTLEY LITTLE

The Policy

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