Hope

"L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle est, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable."

"Hope is a timid thing, Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering; At least, such Hope as human life can bring."

"Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;— How many hearts have nourished a vain flame In silence and in secret, though they knew They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!"

"Hope destroys pleasure; …"

"Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it."

"One's thoughts turn towards Hope."

"If you've lost your faith in love and music, the end won't be long"

"One only hope my heart can cheer,— The hope to meet again."

"Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise, Having naught else but Hope."

"The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone."

"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."

"Who bids me Hope, and in that charming word Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd."

"Vita dum superest, bene est."

"Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn."

"“Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out. Hope is bad. Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left. Ely-Eleanor is always saying 'don't use this word' and 'don't use that word,' but she never bans the ones that are really bad. She never bans hope.”"

"Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things."

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

"Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

"So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair."

"And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right. Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone."

"A man without hope is a man without fear."

"Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages."

"Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all."

"What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair."

"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good."

"Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest."

"Toutes choses, disoit un mot ancien, sont esperables à un homme, pendant qu'il vit."

"Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive."

"Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away."

"And tho't that the light-house look't lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean."

"With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope."

"A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy."

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulus to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it — so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."

"Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."

"Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be."

"The absence of hope can rot a society from within."

"I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."

"[W]e were inspired by the fierce dignity of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, as she proved that no human being can truly be imprisoned if hope burns in your heart.… You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts."

"Only by working together can we preserve those institutions of family and community, rights and responsibilities, law and self-government that is the hallmark of this nation. For, it turns out, we do not persevere alone. Our character is not found in isolation. Hope does not arise by putting our fellow man down; it is found by lifting others up."

"Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest."

"Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."

"But Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?"

"Now, there remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

"We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion."

"Nam multa præter spem scio multis bona evenisse, At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos."

"Even after all that, each and every being here believe, that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail. The experience knows that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long."

"Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now."

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest."