HOPE QUOTES IV

quotations about hope

Hope quote

Hope is a flatterer; but the most upright of parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


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

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:12


The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

GERALD MASSEY

"Long Expected"


Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

THALES

fragment


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


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

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris


The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

DANIEL GOLEMAN

Working With Emotional Intelligence


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

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

Tags: Mignon McLaughlin


What makes hope such an intense pleasure is the fact that the future, which we dispose of to our liking, appears to us at the same time under a multitude of forms, equally attractive and equally possible. Even if the most coveted of these becomes realized, it will be necessary to give up the others, and we shall have lost a great deal.

HENRI BERGSON

Time and Free Will

Tags: Henri Bergson


The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Human

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark

Tags: Rebecca Solnit


Hope is a pickpocket with both fists full.

CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Radiance


Blind hope faces a blank wall waiting for a door in it to open. Doors might be nearby, but blind hope keeps you from locating them.

REBECCA SOLNIT

Hope in the Dark


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

GEORGES BERNANOS

The Diary of a Country Priest

Tags: Georges Bernanos


Who turns away from gazing at the sun
Sees its dusk images fill all the air.
It is not otherwise when Hope is done:
Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

EDITH MATILDA THOMAS

"When Hope Is Done"


Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

GEORGE WEINBERG

Self Creation

Tags: George Weinberg


Every dead hope is a phantom that grimaces over its tomb.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The White Feet of the Morrow"


At home or abroad, on land, on sea, in prosperity or in adversity, hope's beaming star ever lights us, sometimes feeble, but oftener bright; sometimes weak, but oftener strong. Hope is the murderer's cell, and with the shipwrecked mariner on the desert isle; in the palace, and in the cot; it is shining with surpassing splendour by the dying bed of the Christian, and flickering round the couch of the infidel. Hope met our first parents in Eden, and will be with the last man on earth. Hope is part of our immortality; we hope on, and we hope ever.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Hope", Short Essays


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