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“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“And there is nothing like dreams for engendering the future.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“God is always the last resource.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“While there's life there's hope!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“From these definitions it follows, that there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Martin Luther, “Table Talk” - 1566

“It is silly not to hope . . . Besides I believe it is a sin.” Ernest Hemingway, “The Old Man and the Sea” - 1952

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” Jules Verne, “Around the World in 80 Days” - 1873

“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand—that and such hope as I bring.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.” William Shakespeare, “All's Well That Ends Well” - 1623

“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that and manage it against despairing thoughts.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because...” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood...” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - 16 April 1963

“In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“I am deeply touched by the sincere concern shown by so many people in this part of the world for the suffering of the people of Tibet. That is a source of hope not only for us Tibetans, but for all oppressed people.” 14th Dalai Lama, “Nobel Lecture” - 1989

“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“You know this fellow is many-sided, a tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

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