Quotes

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

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

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 mast be expiated by pain.
-Samuel Johnson

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.
-Anonymous Author

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
-Mignon McLaughlin

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

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
-Vauvenargues

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
-Matthew Prior

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.
-Charles L. Allen

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
-Lin Yutang

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

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

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 is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
-Anonymous Author

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
-Don Quixote

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
-Ouida

Hope is grief's best music.
-Anonymous Author

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
-George Weinberg

Hope is the poor man's bread.
-Gary Herbert

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

Love floods us with hope.
-Jareb Teague

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

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

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

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
-Samuel Johnson

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
-Eric Hoffer

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
-Baruch Spinoza

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
-Anonymous Author

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
-Victor Hugo

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

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

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

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

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

Hope is the physician of each misery.
-Irish Proverb

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
-Pearl S. Buck

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
-Tertullian

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
-Robert Ingersoll