HOPE QUOTES II

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Hope quote

"I hope" is used in order to voice a bunch of trivial alibis that express (or deserve) no commitment or future--that ally themselves with the acceptance of the most awful present. People "hope to" win the lottery, or the slots, or to be the ninth caller to a radio station; and pretty soon this caricature is too much of a burden to carry. The delicate fabric of hope is easy to tear; then all we are left with is a tic, we have gone to the opposite extreme from the firmness of faith--and extremes often touch, we know: there are those who go straight from a church service to a bingo game.

ERMANNO BENCIVENGA

Dancing Souls

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How can hope be false when it is as much a part of the human experience as birth or death?

LORI HOPE

Help Me Live

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Hope is the shadow of faith.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Hope deceives more men than cunning can.

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflecions et Maximes


Hope is the best possession.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


With thee, sweet Hope! resides the heav'nly light,
That pours remotest rapture on the sight:
Thine is the charm of life's bewilder'd way,
That calls each slumb'ring passion into play:
Wak'd by thy touch, I see the sister band,
On tiptoe watching, start at thy command,
And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer,
To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

The Pleasures of Hope

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Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Nov. 13, 1712


Hope is a waking dream.

ARISTOTLE

attributed, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams
Of better days that are yet to be,
After glittering goal, that distant gleams,
Running and racing untiringly.
The worldly may grow old and young as it will,
But the Hope of man is Improvement still.
Hope bears him into life in her arms,
She flutters around the boy's young bloom,
The soul of youth with her magic warms,
Nor rests with age in the silent tomb;
For ends man his weary course at the grave,
There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

"Hope"


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Human

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Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

The Last of the Barons


I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

ARTHUR MILLER

After the Fall

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Hope is the soul's best bower anchor let go in good holding ground. Through every trial, through every woe, in health, in sickness, in poverty, and in want, hope, like a bright fixed star of promise, shines aloft, and bids us not despair.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Hope", Short Essays


Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark

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Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

GEORGE WEINBERG

Self Creation

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Any little thing can give hope, like a candle in the dark.

CHRISTIAAN MOSTERT

Hope: Challenging the Culture of Despair


Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Prisoner of Heaven


The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

BARACK OBAMA

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009


Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


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