O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
— The Tempest
Quotes About Hope
Aristotle says youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope, so hope can mislead as readily as it can lift. Adam Smith observes that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation. Edgar Allan Poe calls hope a fire of fire, and adds that it is but agony of desire. Nelson Mandela asks that our choices reflect our hopes, not our fears. Abraham Lincoln explains that he laughs because he must not cry, that is all, that is all. Thomas Jefferson steers his bark with hope in his heart, leaving fear astern. Michael Jackson finds hope a beautiful word, yet fragile, while life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. Sigmund Freud warns that it would be an illusion to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.
— The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
— Sense and Sensibility
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
— Les Misérables
I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
— The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.
— Nicholas Nickleby
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
— The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
— The Fellowship of the Ring
Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?
— In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.
— Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
He that lives upon hope will die farting.
— Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
One always has hope for human nature
— Sleeping Murder
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
— The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.
— The Waste Land and Other Poems
Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
— Optimism
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
— The Naval Treaty
Hope is a passion for the possible.
— Fear and Trembling
You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
— Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
— The Count of Monte Cristo
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
— The Future of an Illusion
Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?
— The Book of Questions
Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?
— Antigone
Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.
— The Atheist’s Mass