Easter Quotes
The sources for this page are the faith, hope and spirituality pages, not a collection of Easter writing. A few entries do mention the day: Longfellow’s The Spanish Student (1843) sets a scene on a bright Easter Sunday with blossoming trees, and W. H. Auden, in A Certain World (1970), says Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry but Good Friday cannot, any more than Auschwitz.
Most of what else you find here is general. Expect devotional writers and poets, with sources and dates on every quote page. Anything flagged as disputed or misattributed carries a note that says what the editors turned up.
In so great a danger the faintest hope should be considered.
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.
For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.
A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
Tonight, let us exchange every part of our bodies and every space of our souls with each other.
In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.