Quotes about hope
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“Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can’t erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

Love, Way

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...”

Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic

Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"

Life, Birth, Sense

“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Heart

“He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

People, Change

“As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Dreams, Way, Distant

“I hoped I wasn't blushing. It was bad enough I had to depend on my mom to drive me to my battles.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Moms, Dependency

“I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Boy, Cats

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Variant: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

Fate, Dreams, Change

“Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.”

Jim Butcher book Death Masks

Source: Death Masks

Death, Future, Despair

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Disappointment, Imagination, Thinking, Time

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

Dreams, Feeling, Spring, Idea

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Kill and Tell

Death, Fear, Peace

“Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

People, Understanding, Time

“You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.”

Stephen King Dreamcatcher

Source: Dreamcatcher

Dreams

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Personality

“Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Boy

“And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Knowledge

“Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Love

“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

People

“Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.”

Clive Barker book Imajica

Source: Imajica

Fear, Knowledge, Study

“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

World, Dreams, Learning

“Hope does not leave without being given permission.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Hope

“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Love, Heart

“Fuckin' A… hope didn't so much spring eternal as it drowned out common sense and self-preservation.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Spring, Sense

“Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.”

Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books

“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”

Anne Rice book Blackwood Farm

Source: Blackwood Farm (2002)
Context: "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Books, Universe

“Piper gripped his hand and followed him, “If I fall, you’re catching me.” “Uh, sure.” Jason hoped he wasn’t blushing.
Leo stepped out next. “You’re catching me, too, Superman. But I ain’t holding your hand.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm
"Uh... sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushing
Leo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand"
- The Lost Hero, Aeolus place

“hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.'
'It's the most we can hope for.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”

Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar

Reading

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

World, Change, Reading, Heart

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Faith, Faith

“Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”

Jerry Garcia (1942–1995) American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Life, Future

“I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to the hope of being with you..”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Fight

“Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope. so trthen despererux died i n heaven and in peace”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

Peace

“He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

World

“Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities…”

Kōji Suzuki book Ring

Source: Ring

Life, Question, Thinking, Future

“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Lie

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Love, Life, Stupidity, Girl

“I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings”

Timothy Findley book The Wars

Source: The Wars

“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”

Charles Darwin book The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Source: The Descent of Man

Truth, Fear

“Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles

Problem

“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Life, Fear, Forgetting

“He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now… He was alone and there was nothing for him.”

Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

Dreams, Game

“Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Love, Men

“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

Fear, Evil

“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Life, Youth, Age, Beauty

“I hope that death contains
less than this.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

Death

“Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this.

At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

Communication, Kiss, Chance

“So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.”

Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author

Soul, Parting

“I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.”

Melissa Bank book The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Source: The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Love, Way

“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26 ISBN 1586486381
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Justice, Freedom

“Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Source: The Toilers of the Sea

Hope

“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Sleep, Past

“I didn't want to see you."
"They told me."
"I was afraid that I'd still love you."
"I hoped that you would.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Love

“Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.”

William Wharton book Birdy

Source: Birdy

People, Thinking

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Wisdom, God, Waiting, Future

“You will not find love where you wish or where you hope.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Love

“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

Happiness, Patience

“Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought…?”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

Love, Question

“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”

Julianna Baggott book Pure

Source: Pure

Drawing

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Stupidity

“The way her fingers flutter through the space around her. Each a thing he hopes never to forget.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Way, Forgetting

“He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Hurt

“Oh, gods, you’re mated! I really hope it’s to Aimee. (Bride)
Thankfully so. Otherwise I’d have had to kill me some ho and then beat Fang senseless. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

God

“A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Happiness, Feeling, Gratitude

“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Way, Problem

“I can see hope inside it."

Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs.

"So fragile.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Happiness, World, Light, Parting

“I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“What you hope for, you also fear.”

Alice Walker book The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

Fear

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Way, Courage

“The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.”

Marina Warner (1946) writer and mythographer

Source: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Appearance

“Yep," said Arthur. Somehowseemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger thanand more heroic than. He hoped he could live up to it.”

Garth Nix book Drowned Wednesday

Source: Drowned Wednesday

“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Dreams

“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Hurt

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Love, Children

“It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys

“I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

“You have to open up to the world and learn optimism… Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Agnes and the Hitman

Happiness, World, Optimism, Learning

“What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

People, Communication, Solitude, Joy

“I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Time, Dead

“Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 428

World, Fear, Time, Hurt

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Books, Soul, Sense, Light

“He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope."
"I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking…”

Lloyd Alexander book The Black Cauldron

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 20
Source: The Black Cauldron
Context: Orgoch gave a most ungentle snort. Orddu, meanwhile, had unfolded a length of brightly woven tapestry and held it out to Taran.
“We came to bring you this, my duckling,” she said. “Take it and pay no heed to Orgoch’s grumbling. She’ll have to swallow her disappointment—for lack of anything better.”
“I have seen this on your loom,” Taran said, more than a little distrustful. “Why do you offer it to me? I do not ask for it, nor can I pay for it.”
“It is yours by right, my robin,” answered Orddu. “It does come from our loom, if you insist on strictest detail, but it was really you who wove it.”
Puzzled, Taran looked more closely at the fabric and saw it crowded with images of men and women, of warriors and battles, of birds and animals. “These,” he murmured in wonder, “these are of my own life.”
“Of course,” Orddu replied. “The pattern is of your choosing and always was.”
“My choosing?” Taran questioned. “Not yours? Yet I believed...” He stopped and raised his eyes to Orddu. “Yes,” he said slowly, “once I did believe the world went at your bidding. I see now it is not so. The strands of life are not woven by three hags or even by three beautiful damsels. The pattern indeed was mine. But here,” he added, frowning as he scanned the final portion of the fabric where the weaving broke off and the threads fell unraveled, “here it is unfinished.”
“Naturally,” said Orddu. “You must still choose the pattern, and so must each of you poor, perplexed fledglings, as long as thread remains to be woven.”

Way, Idea