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
Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.
JEROME GROOPMAN
The Anatomy of Hope
It is better to hope than to mope!
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Year of the Flood
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
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
That which obstructs hope often increases it.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope is carefully to be distinguished, on the one hand from optimism (which springs from prediction of what the future will bring), and on the other hand from wishful thinking (which is unconstrained by the probabilities of what that future might bring). Hope is based neither on certainty, as if it were simply extrapolation of the present, nor on fantasy, as if its object bore only a tenuous relation to the present. Once again, we encounter the eschatological dialectic of continuity and discontinuity. In relation to hope, failure to respect this balance can lead either to despair that anything will ever change for the better, or to violent imaginings of apocalyptic destruction in which the future can be attained only by the annihilation of the past.
JOHN POLKINGHORNE
The God of Hope and the End of the World
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 is the spur of life.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
What doctor possesses such curative resources as those latent in a spark of happiness or a single ray of hope?
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Hope is, indeed, a deceitful enchantress; but she sheds a sweet radiance on the stream of life, and never exerts her magic except to our advantage. We seldom attain what she beckons us to pursue; but her deceptions resemble those which the dying husbandman in the fable practiced upon his sons, who, by telling them of a hidden mass of wealth, which he had buried in a secret place in his vineyard, led them so sedulously to delve the ground, and turn up the earth about the roots of the vines, that they found, in deed, a treasure, though not in gold, in wine.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
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
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
Do not invest your whole life in one hope.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought