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

“I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“This is where they come into their own, for there's money in hope: the more desperate the hope, the richer the pickings.”

Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain

“‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.”

Terry Pratchett book The Last Hero

“Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”

Erik H. Erikson (1902–1994) American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist

“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

“Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

“A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet