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Quotations about Hope

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve


Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.  ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.  ~Titus Maccius Plautus


Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.  ~Vincent McNabb


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878




When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.  ~Edgar Howe


If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.  ~Samuel Johnson


Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.  ~Emily Dickinson


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 Lamott


The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. ~Ana Jacob


All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets


The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure


The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.  ~Marian Zimmer Bradley


You've gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.  ~Author Unknown


Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  ~Mark Twain


Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.  ~George Iles


When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.  ~Author Unknown


If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.  ~Eric Bentley


It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.  ~Thomas Hardy


Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.  ~Norman Cousins