| | |

Hope quotes

edits filters view all 79 quotes

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

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

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

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

“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.” Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” - 1975

“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

“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

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

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

“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

“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“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

“So I have hope for you, if only because you are the only one left to hope for.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“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

“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

“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

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

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” Jane Austen, “Persuasion” - 1816

“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

“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

“I said, let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler: but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.” George Eliot, “Daniel Deronda” - 1876

“There is always light behind the clouds.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

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

“Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

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

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

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

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.” Walter Scott, “The Lady of the Lake” - 1810

“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse!” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

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

“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.” Thomas Carlyle, “Past and Present” - 1843

“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

“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

“May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope.” Pope Francis, “Laudato si'” - 24 May 2015

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

“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

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

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

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

“Then, in happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, O my friend, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“Work, love, courage and hope, Make me good and help me cope!” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

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

“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

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.” Margaret Thatcher, “The Downing Street Years” - 1993

Related topics

despair fear life faith love youth courage darkness future disappointment pain chance work God knowledge romance dream freedom humanity light

Related authors

J. R. R. Tolkien (6)
William Shakespeare (5)
Alexandre Dumas (4)
Anne Frank (4)
Jane Austen (3)
Charlotte Brontë (3)
George Eliot (3)
Ernest Hemingway (2)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2)
Charles Dickens (2)
Louisa May Alcott (2)
Jules Verne (2)
Dante Alighieri (2)
Ambrose Bierce (2)
Albert Camus (2)
John Milton (2)
Baruch Spinoza (2)
Herman Melville (1)
John Green (1)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1)

Related sources

The Count of Monte Cristo (4)
The Diary of a Young Girl (4)
Jane Eyre (3)
The Return of the King (3)
The Old Man and the Sea (2)
Middlemarch (2)
Little Women (2)
Divine Comedy (2)
The Devil's Dictionary (2)
Paradise Lost (2)
Ethics (2)
The Fellowship of the Ring (2)
Persuasion (2)
All's Well That Ends Well (1)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1)
Macbeth (1)
Richard III (1)
Sense and Sensibility (1)
This Side of Paradise (1)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)