Quotes about hope
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“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Way, Imagination

“It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

People

“Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, World, Way

“There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

Fear, Thinking, Freedom

“The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly.

She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.”

I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Way

“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Appearance, Change, Time

“I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Love

“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Suffering

“And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks.

Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.

—from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: When He Was Wicked

Love, Thinking

“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

World, Soul, Spring, Flowers

“Hey, Hot Stuff, Can’t wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it’s soon. You’re way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I’m out here waiting. Your Future”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Jerk, Way, Guy, Waiting

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) American historian

Love, Faith, Knowledge, Past

“Hi, Max," she said, pushing her shades up onto her curls.
"I hope your wearing sunscreen," i said, “your gonna have hella wrinkles by the time your ten.”
“Want some daiquiri?” she offered, pointing at a blender.
“Is it traitor flavored?” I asked.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Time

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873) <br class="br">Source: Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

Soul

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Life

“There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

God, Sense, Future

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Time

“In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Feeling, Lying, Heart

“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story; and I have never believed that the novelist who properly performed this first condition of his art, was in danger, on that account, of neglecting the delineation of character — for this plain reason, that the effect produced, by any narrative of events is essentially dependent, not on the events themselves, but on the human interest which is directly connected with them. It may be possible in novel-writing to present characters successfully without telling a story; but it is not possible to tell a story successfully without presenting characters: their existence, as recognizable realities, being the sole condition on which the story can be effectively told. The only narrative which can hope to lay a strong hold on the attention of readers is a narrative which interests them about men and women — for the perfectly obvious reasons that they are men and women themselves.”

Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White

Source: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)

Women, Men, Art, Fashion

“You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Life, Guy, Thinking

“Marriage is compromise and hard work, and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who enter.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Marriage, Communication

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

Helen Keller book Optimism

Optimism (1903)
Variant: Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

Faith, Optimism, Motivational, For women

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”

Robyn Davidson (1950) Australian writer

Source: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

Life, Wisdom, Dogs

“I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”

Nancy Springer (1948) American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction

Despair

“We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”

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

Time

“It is only for those without hope that hope is given.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

“I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they’re taken in the right way. I don’t want to stop being free. And I won’t.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Way

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Love, Sex

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

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

People, Fear

“No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.”

Agatha Christie book Cat Among the Pigeons

Source: Cat Among the Pigeons

“I mean, five gods in one stomach—dang. That's enough for doubles tennis, including a ref. They'd been down there so long, they were probably hoping Kronos would swallow down a deck of cards or a Monopoly game.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

God, Game

“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Personality, Hope

“I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr. Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Secret

“Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.”

Natasha Friend (1972) American writer

Source: My Life in Black and White

Depressing

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Disappointment, Anger

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnSouled

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

World, Feeling, Heart, Hurt

“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

Love

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: The Complete Poems

Life, Dreams

“I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Heart

“Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope)”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Thinking, Chance

“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Love, Hell, Season

“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.”

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

Source: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

Dreams, Time

“I hope that something better comes along.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“Help me give up my addiction to Hope.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Help

“[Eric:] "I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you."
[Sookie:] "Like a fungus?”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery!”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

“… where there is no more hope, song remains.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Chance, Night

“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

LOVE (1972)

Love, Joy

“Losing all hope was freedom.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Source: Fight Club

Freedom

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

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

Idea

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: The Year of Pleasures

Life

“Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

Fear, Faith, Dreams

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Love

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano

Beauty, Drink, Understanding

“I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.”

Jaclyn Moriarty book Feeling Sorry for Celia

Source: Feeling Sorry for Celia

Feeling, Dead

“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Happiness, Forgetting

“I hope suffering don't exist.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Suffering

“[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

Source: Deadline

Way

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon

Light

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Money, World, Knowledge

“A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Sleep, Daughters, Night

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot… It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

God

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Pain, Happiness, Education, Time

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Thinking, Personality

“Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.”

Thomas Pynchon (1937) American novelist

“I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“The figure in the doorway ducked; the brick hit the wall, and Luke straightened up and looked at her curiously. I hope when we're married, that's not the way you greet me every day when I come home, he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way, Home

“The problem is, hope is the thing that can’t be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It’s a blessing and curse.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: Flamecaster

Problem

“I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

Truth, Lie, World, Hell

“Wherever there's hope there's a trial.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. I hope it's not. We might get lucky.”

Michael Crichton Prey

Source: Prey (2002)

Understanding

“That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.”

Sarah Vowell book Assassination Vacation

Source: Assassination Vacation

“… You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

People, Thinking

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Age, Home, Night, Birthday

“What is stronger, fear or hope?”

Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Fear

“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Dreams, Soul

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. <br class="br">Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Love, Death, Dreams, Imagination

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi
Source: City of Bones

Love, Girl

“Fight with realistic
hope, not to destroy

all the world's wrong,
but to renew its good.”

Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire

Source: Rose Under Fire

World, Fight

“Tell me what’s the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn’t know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope”

Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986) Poet, writer and translator

Waiting, Heart

“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Hurt

“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying… but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Cry

“Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets, lies, stories. We all tell them. Sometimes, because we hope to entertain. Sometimes, because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Secret

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Imagination

“There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Gone With the Wind

Girl, Time, Baby

“Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

Source: The Seeress of Kell

“Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

“Hope that is the only antidote to fear.”

Lance Armstrong book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Source: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Fear

“In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Daughters

“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 that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

Life

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Love, Understanding, Kiss, Heart

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Context: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Sense, Hope

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

Jean Fritz (1915–2017) American children's writer

Books, Passion, Reading