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“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

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

“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

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

“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

“One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.” Margaret Mitchell, “Gone with the Wind” - 1936

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Where are the visions of hopeful futures, of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads?” Carl Sagan, “Pale Blue Dot” - 1994

“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

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

“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

“FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“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

“The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Uncle Tom's Cabin” - 1852

“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

“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

“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

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

“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“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

“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

“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

“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

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