HOPE QUOTES III

quotations about hope

Hope quote

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

GERALD MASSEY

"Long Expected"


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


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


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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Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To Be Blest.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man


We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

KRISTIN ARMSTRONG

O Magazine, Feb. 2007

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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


Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

JOHN GARDNER

In the Suicide Mountains


Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see--in the mind's eye--a path to a better future.

JEROME GROOPMAN

The Anatomy of Hope


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 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


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


Hope is a pickpocket with both fists full.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


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

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:12


Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris


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, Oct. 28, 1815

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Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up, and it will.

BIRDEE PRUITT

Hope Floats


A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

GEORGES BERNANOS

The Diary of a Country Priest

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A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from Tomorrow.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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