Quotes about hope
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“Ideals of College” http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA15&dq=%22You+are+not+here+merely%22, Swarthmore (25 October 1913)<!--PWW 28:439-442-->
1910s
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.
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
Source: Peony in Love
“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: An Equal Music
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption
“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.”
Source: The Day of the Locust
Variant: Therefore you can never lose hope--because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.
Source: City of Lost Souls
“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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.
“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 191
Variant: How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Source: The Son of Neptune
“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.”
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Source: The House of Hades
1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream
“I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
Source: Middlemarch (1871)
“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”
Source: Gatsby Girls
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.
“She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.”
Source: Cry Wolf
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"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.
“We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.”
Source: The Demigod Diaries
Source: The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
"Letter from London" (18 September 2003) http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-51?topic=1752&forum=12
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.
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.
Source: Intertwined
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
Source: Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 19, Hot Potting, A story by Baroness Frostbite
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Source: The Choice
“Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
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."
“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Source: Magic Bleeds