"O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!"

"From every joy and pain a hope leaps out eternally to escape this pain and to widen joy. And again the ascent begins — which is pain — and joy is reborn and new hope springs up once more. The circle never closes. It is not a circle, but a spiral which ascends eternally, ever widening, enfolding and unfolding the triune struggle."

"Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne."

"Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go."

"My plenteous joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow."

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacriﬁce, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magniﬁcently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an inﬁnite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in deﬁance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

"Hope is the poor man's bread."

"He that lives in hope danceth without music."

"Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south."

"Hope of all passions, most befriends us here"

"Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes, Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys."

"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

"Confiding, though confounded; hoping on, Untaught by trial, unconvinced by proof, And ever looking for the never-seen."

"Hope told a flattering tale That joy would soon return; Ah, naught my sighs avail For love is doomed to mourn."

"Is Man A child of hope? Do generations press On generations, without progress made? Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray, Perforce?"

"Hopes; what are they?—Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass."

"As I said, such a possibility is a remote one, and I refuse to allow hope, that winged menace, to find purchase in my heart."

"Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest disappointment follow."

"In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so hopeless. During the dark hours of this horrible war, entire nations were kept going by something intangible--hope! When warned that abject submission offered the only salvation against overwhelming power, hope showed the way to victory. Hope has become the secret weapon of the forces of liberation! Aggressors could not dominate the human mind. As long as hope remains, the spirit of man will never be crushed."

"Vestras spes uritis."

"Speravimus ista Dum fortuna fuit."

"As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!"

"Spes fovet, et fore eras semper ait melius."

"Many are the strange chances of the world... and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."

"There is always hope."

"Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness."

"The mighty hopes that make us men."

"Ego spem pretio non emo."

"Væ misero mihi! quanta de spe decidi."

"Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all, And every winter change to spring."

"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."

"Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources, if not without loss at all events without ruin; but its nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colours only when they are ruined; but so long as the discovery would enable them to guard against it, it is never found wanting. Let not this be the case with you, who are weak and hang on a single turn of the scale; nor be like the vulgar, who, abandoning such security as human means may still afford, when visible hopes fail them in extremity, turn to invisible, to prophecies and oracles, and other such inventions that delude men with hopes to their destruction."

"We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope."

"While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none."

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

"“What hope can a man have,” my father had once shouted at me, “if he has none of Heaven?” Even in 1910 he thought the world a vale of tears without relent. “The hope of enlightened life,” I had replied then."

"Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end."

"It is never right to consider that a man has been made happy by fate, until his life is absolutely finished, and he has ended his existence."

"But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love."

"Hope makes itself every day springs up from the tiniest places"

"This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of Life, and everyone in this town gives part of their water rations to keep it alive. We've learned, administrator, that hope is a powerful weapon against anything, even drought."

"Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics."

"Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope."