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Quotes about Hope


I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Albert Camus

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. -Unknown.

Bugs Unknown

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.

Robert Burns

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Samuel Democritus

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Pierre Corneille

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Erich Fromm

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

Stars lead me up to heaven, and I hope I'm there with you, for you are a star in my twinkling eyes.

Shannon Fancher

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours. -Swedish Proverb.

Swedish Proverb

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Allan K. Chalmers.

Allan K. Chalmers

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

John Grisham

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Lord Byron

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Emma Goldman

"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

John Gay

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Benjamin L. Hooks

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas B. Aldrich

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

Matt Anonymous

Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?

Edmund Spenser

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