False Hope Quotes

• Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Believe, Promise

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• False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Dangerous

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

  Julian Fellowes

  Reality, Harsh, Harsh Reality

  "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

  Trudi Canavan

  Pain, Long, Ongoing

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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• There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Mistake, Swept Away

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• False hope really makes you cynical.

  Bill Maher

  Cynical

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• False hope is better than no hope at all.

  Lois Greiman

  Hope, No Hope

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• False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake, Heart, Break Through

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “Stories from Tagore”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

  James Alan Gardner

  Letting Go, Past, Odds

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• False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Real, Choices, Decision

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.130, Random House

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• False hope is worse than despair.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Change, Despair, Human Nature

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• There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

  Sue Miller

  Comforting, Serious, Illusion

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• False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Catchy, No Hope

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• False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

  Mike Caro

  Sometimes, No Hope

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• What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fear, Silly, Men

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• I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

  Warren Buffett

  Couple, Mistake, Mean

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

  Patti Davis

  Absence

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• I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

  Learned Hand

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

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  If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope

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• It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Middle Earth, Folly

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Blessed, Sheep, Satanic

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• Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

  Simon Cowell

  Girl, Zero, Kindness

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  Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

  Jon Stewart

  Death, Hope, Atheist

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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