Quotes about hope
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“I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Perfect

World, Dreams

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

People

“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

Love

“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”

Cecelia Ahern book PS, I Love You

Variant: We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
Source: PS, I Love You

“… because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Time, Waiting, Personality

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.”

George Eliot book Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

Suffering, Despair, Sad, Depressing

“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Soul

“I hope your bacon burns.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“I know. I was hoping," I say.
"Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch.
I don't argue because, of course, he's right.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Warrior Prophet

Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Source: The Warrior Prophet (2005)

Love, Hunger

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman

Source: An Unnecessary Woman

Memory

“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”

Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer

Source: Voice of the Gods

Pain, Truth, Falseness

“I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

“Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Fear, Religion, Nature, Daughters

“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”

John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States

1770s
Source: Letter to Abigail Adams (27 April 1777), published as Letter CXI in Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife (1841) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 218

Pain, Freedom

“The Empress will follow where you go," she said.
"So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.”

Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time

Source: A Memory of Light

“With my life comes my heart, yours now to crush or cherish as you will. It is my hope you will have a care in keeping both.”

Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer

Source: Keeper of the Heart

Life, Heart

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Sister, Country

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Death, Nature, Time

“I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

World, Parent, Dead

“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights

Water, Success, Daughters

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. 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

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Books, World, Strong, Sea

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Problem

“Well, I hope you like it here, Leo. It used to be……. really nice.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“What are you? (Zarek)
I’m a nymph. (Astrid)
I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Princess

“Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.”

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

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

Travel, Change

“I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much… so, so much.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: Maizon at Blue Hill

Death, Way, Star, Hurt

“Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

George Eliot book Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

Soul, Knowledge

“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option”

Obert Skye Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

Source: Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

Disappointment

“No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Pain

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Way, Past, Joy

“I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Way

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love, Understanding

“I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Life, Happiness, Idea

“Ultimate hope and daily grumpiness are not reconcilable.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

“A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

Source: Faithless: Tales of Transgression

Hurt

“Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Idea, Help, Cry

“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.”

Dean Koontz book Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.”

Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life

Source: Charmed Life

Peace

“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”

Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013) Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist

Life, Death, Disease

“We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

People, Heart, Hope

“He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

World, Imagination

“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged

Hell

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Pain, Beauty, Dreams

“I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Perseverance

“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Way, Despair, Hope

“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

People, World, Feeling

“Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Dependency

“I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Fools, Sense

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Source: The Cornel West Reader

Love, World, Idea, Personality

“I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

Future

“At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

Source: Wolf Hall

People

“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Future

“You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-"
"Yes?"
"Taller."
"I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me."
"And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Don't Tell

Change, Time

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Despair, Hope

“I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Beach Trees

God

“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

Leo Tolstoy book A Confession

Source: A Confession

Life, Fear

“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

World, Thinking, Future

“She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Sex

“These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker

"The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/addams6.htm; this piece by Jane Addams was first published in 1892 and later appeared as chapter six of Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) <br class="br">Context: These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coördination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Life, Women, Men, People