Hope Quotes
Hope is a small page with almost no controversy. At the time of writing, no quote on it is flagged as misattributed or disputed; three are marked attributed. The authors are mostly poets (Milton, Shelley, Byron, Samuel Johnson, T. S. Eliot), and the best-sourced entries are the older ones.
Coleridge, in “Work without Hope” (1825): “Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And Hope without an object cannot live.” Bertrand Russell, in Political Ideals (1917), thought that hope for the world was to be found only in the deeds of love. Jane Goodall appears three times, which makes her a rare modern name among the poets.
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.
We can never enter upon the path to virtue unless we have hope as our guide and companion.
A hopeful sinner is closer to the mercy of Allah than a hopeless worshipper.
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me;
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
Worse than despair,
Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing, of all things.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.