Hope Quotes - Page 28

• Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sunshine, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.299, Princeton University Press

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• Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Dream, Hero, Reality

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

  Thomas More

  Men, Drowning, Clutch

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• Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

  W. H. Auden

  Life, Wish

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• I sit in one of the dives
  On Fifty-second Street
  Uncertain and afraid
  As the clever hopes expire
  Of a low dishonest decade

  W. H. Auden

  Clever, Fear, Fifty

  "September 1, 1939" l. 1 (1939)

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• Spring is like a perhaps hand

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, Hands

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• hopes dance best on bald men's hair

  e. e. cummings

  Men, Hair, Bald Man

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Disappointment, Discipline, Suffering

  Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in "The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition" by Gerda Lerner, Editorial Oxford University Press, (p. 241), 1998.

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• Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.156

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• Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

  Edith M. Thomas

  Air, Heaven, Done

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• True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel

  Strong, Character, Views

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• We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Would Be, Consolation

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• If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

  Frances Harper

  Past, Promise, Shadow

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.124, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.326, Modern Library

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• Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.

  Randle Cotgrave

  Ifs

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• Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Despair, Slave, Willing

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• What can we not endure,
  When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?

  Magdalen Nabb

  Pain, Cures, Endure

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• The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Sight, Two

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Wish, Negative

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• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

  Aftab Alam

  Dark, Light, Rooms

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• It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Disappointment, Ambition, Frustration

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Waldo & Magic, Inc.”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Summer, Ambition, Doors

  Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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• All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

  Vonda N. McIntyre

  Mistake, Ambition, Trying

  Vonda N. McIntyre (1981). “Fireflood: and other stories”, Pocket

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• Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

  Tanith Lee

  Heart, Ambition, Offense

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• Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Ambition, Greatness

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.246, Macmillan

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