quotations about hope
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
The season of bereavement becomes the seed-time of hope.
HARRY GREY
Sorrow Not Without Hope
Even if in the building of mere castles in the air the total expenditure one way or the other scarcely matters, from which misdirected and ultimately fraudulently used wishful dreams then result, hope with plan and with connection to the due Possible is still the most powerful and best thing there is. And even if hope merely rises above the horizon, whereas only knowledge of the Real shifts it in solid fashion by means of practice, it is still hope alone which allows us to gain the inspiring and consoling understanding of the world to which it leads.
ERNST BLOCH
The Principle of Hope
It is better to hope than to mope!
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
JEROME GROOPMAN
The Anatomy of Hope
False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.
JEROME GROOPMAN
The Anatomy of Hope
What heart has not false Hope misled?
WILLIAM B. TAPPAN
"What Heart Has Not False Hope Misled"
Hope is the spur of life.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Power and the Glory
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
"Maternal Dream"
Hope is not a strategy.
RICK PAGE
Hope Is Not a Strategy
Do not invest your whole life in one hope.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Hope entered the dark chambers of our childish hearts, and has ever since been the sun of our existence, shining day and night, never dark, never extinguished.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Hope is symbolized in Christian iconography by an anchor. And what does an anchor do? It keeps the ship on course when wind and waves rage against it. But the anchor of hope is sunk in heaven, not on earth.
GREGORY FLOYD
A Grief Unveiled
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!
EMILY BRONTE
Hope
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
GENE WOLFE
The Shadow of the Torturer
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
fragment
For hope will cull a withered flower
And tune a harp with a broken string;
And hope will shed a glimmering ray
Of light on pleasure's ruined shrine.
For mouldering columns still look gay
When summer sunbeams o'er them shine.
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY
"Hopes and Fears"