“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”
Come here, Fond Youth. Compare: "Who against hope believed in hope", Romans iv, 18; "Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive", James Montgomery, The World before the Flood.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”
Variant: We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
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“Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.”
“The Power of the Word,” p. 53.
Language is Sermonic (1970)
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless.”
Times of India interview (2014)
Context: We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
“I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.”
Source: "Nine Feet Tall" in Air Force Magazine https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0212tall/ (1 February 2012)
