Quotes about hope
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“Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Guy, Learning

“No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do.”

Rick Riordan book Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

Fate

“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

“Ideals of College” http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA15&dq=%22You+are+not+here+merely%22, Swarthmore (25 October 1913) <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Context: You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

World, Hope, Leadership

“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.”

Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

Dreams, Waiting, Heart

“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

Dreams

“[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Beauty

“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Death, Beauty, Forgetting

“When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.”

Bryce Courtenay The Power of One

Source: The Power of One

Men

“Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

World, Beauty, Soul, Suffering

“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.”

Vikram Seth book An Equal Music

Source: An Equal Music

Happiness, Music, Soul, Time

“You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

People

“I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that”

Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer

Change, Reading

“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption

Hope

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

People, Fools

“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.”

Nathanael West book The Day of the Locust

Source: The Day of the Locust

Tear

“Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Flirt

Source: Flirt

Lie

“And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Variant: Therefore you can never lose hope--because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.
Source: City of Lost Souls

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

Passion

“Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'

Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Cats

“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

Heart, Hope

“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

Understanding, Help

“Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not.. cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet..
-Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer

Hope, Powerful

“I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Stupidity, World

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Fear, Dreams, Tear, Laughter

“We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

Travel

“Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.”

Elisabeth Elliot book Passion and Purity

Source: Passion and Purity

Women, Dreams

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Thinking

“I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Fear, Dreams, Thinking

“I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Happiness

“I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 32, Shadow in the Throes of Death
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Love, Happiness, Loss, Joy

“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 191
Variant: How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love, Hope

“I hate you! (Artemis)
Oh, please don’t get my hopes up. You almost gave me a hard-on with that thought. At least tell me this time your hatred will last more than five minutes. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Hate, Time

“Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “Youhave a plan?”
Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

"being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)

Love, Truth, Fear, Star

“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

Source: The Naval Treaty

Flowers

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Love, Pleasure, Truth, Thinking

“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

World

“[Percy] kept hoping things would get better for Annabeth and him, but their lives just got more dangerous, as if the Three Fates were up there spinning their futures with barbed wire instead of thread just to see how much two demigods could tolerate.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Fate, Future

“I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces

“Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Love, Parting

“I clung to that spark of hope,
nurturing it into a small flame that
chased some of the shadows in my heart
away.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

Heart

“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all… except what you can't be rid of.”

Marilynne Robinson Home

Source: Home

World, Fools, Thinking

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Life

“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream

Faith, Beauty, Dreams, Girl

“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Peace

“At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me.”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

People

“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”

Richard Ford The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter

Hope

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch (1871)

Pain, Despair, Hope

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

Elizabeth Strout book Abide with Me

Source: Abide with Me

Love

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Gatsby Girls

Kiss

“If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

Source: 2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
Context: I know that Americans of goodwill continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. Opposition in some cases has been based on sincere and deeply held beliefs. All of us who welcome today’s news should be mindful of that fact; recognize different viewpoints; revere our deep commitment to religious freedom. But today should also give us hope that on the many issues with which we grapple, often painfully, real change is possible. Shifts in hearts and minds is possible. And those who have come so far on their journey to equality have a responsibility to reach back and help others join them. Because for all our differences, we are one people, stronger together than we could ever be alone. That’s always been our story. We are big and vast and diverse; a nation of people with different backgrounds and beliefs, different experiences and stories, but bound by our shared ideal that no matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny.

Dreams

“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

Despair

“With every farewell comes a hidden hope.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing… We may only go in circles…”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Way

“You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Love

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"The Epigrams of Lusin"
Variant: Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

People, Country, Hope

“Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel.
“Sebastian says I can come with you.”
Jace raised his eyebrows.
“Matching haircuts for everyone?”
“I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Smile, Feeling

“He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.”

Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator

Fear

“Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Parent

“We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.”

David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director

“What is your favorite word?”
“And. It is so hopeful.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn’t mad at her, but if he was she couldn’t blame him.
If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Madness, Anger

“I gave her a smile that I hoped conveyed something like: Hey, you know I’m on your side. Gods are such jerks! But what can you do?

Probably my expression actually conveyed: It’s not my fault! Please do not kill me!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

God, Smile, Jerk

“My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Source: The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words

People, Idea

“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.”

Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter

"Letter from London" (18 September 2003) http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-51?topic=1752&forum=12 <br class="br">Context: Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. Cries of “They’re evil, let’s get ‘em” or “The infidels must die” sound frightening, but they’re desperately empty of argument and understanding. They’re the rallying cries of prejudice, the call to arms of those who find it easier to hate than admit they might be not be right about everything.<br>Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

People, World, Future

“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Thinking, Hope

“If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Intertwined

Nature

“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”

Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer

“Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? Gods, that would be embarrassing.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

God

“For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

People, Dreams

“What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.”

N.T. Wright (1948) Anglican bishop

Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

Optimism, Dead

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope….”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Dreams, Soul, Distant, Sun

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Forgiveness, Time, Past, Help

“Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.”

Iris Murdoch book The Bell

Source: The Bell

World, Disappointment, Holiday

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 19, Hot Potting, A story by Baroness Frostbite

Fear, Thinking, Tear

“She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."

-Rohan to Win”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

Way

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Children

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Love, Dreams

“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Silence, Water

“Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book Young Goodman Brown

Source: "Young Goodman Brown"
Context: "Lo, there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."

Dreams, Nature, Evil, Heart

“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”

Romain Gary book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

Thinking

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Time