“To hope is to contradict the future.”

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”

“The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.”

“Your words and actions must go hand-in-hand, so as to avoid any type of contradiction in the near future.”

“Hope always has a future.”

“Children are our futures and hopes.”

“Without a woman, there will be no hope in the near future.”

“For what did the creator prepare me,
Why did he so terribly contradict
The hopes of my youth?…”

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

“I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future."
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death.
"What does it contain, then?"
ME.”