José Saramago book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Source: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 108
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing.”
Original: (la) Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.
Source: Tragedies, Medea (c. 50 CE), Line 163 (trans. A. J. Boyle)
“Life's short span forbids us to enter on far reaching hopes.”
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.
Book I, ode iv, line 15
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Garry Davis (1921–2013) American actor turned peace activist (1921-2013)
As quoted in Garry Davis Cult, Life (Jan 24, 1949)
“I suppose I should hope that it turns out fine.”
William Fitzsimmons (1978) American musician
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Funeral Dress
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment xvi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new.”
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
