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• Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
  And hope without an object cannot live.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Hope, Work, Nectar

  'Work Without Hope' (1825)

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• I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Sleep, Wish, Despair

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• For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Fear, Loneliness, Healing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1738, Delphi Classics

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Facts, Significant

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• All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

  John Green

  Men, May, Rich

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• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Lows, Hoping For The Best

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Definition 13: Explanation), 1677.

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• Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

  Oswald Spengler

  Taken, Mean, Greatness

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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• It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

  Walter Benjamin

  Given

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• Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

  Dan Morgenstern

  Hope, Suffering, Despair

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• I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Beauty, Beautiful, Morning

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• He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now...He was alone and there was nothing for him.

  Gary Paulsen

  Dream, Taken, Games

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• Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.

  Charles Bukowski

  Be Kind, Faces, Like You

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• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Break Up, Hope, Courage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

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• Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Way, Purpose

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• If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Fighting, Destiny, Victory

  Miguel De Unamuno (2007). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.268, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson

  Hate, Heart, Ignorance

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• A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Nations

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• There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

  Orson Scott Card

  Charity, Sometimes

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “Saints”, p.229, Macmillan

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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• Still desiring, we live without hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Hope, Stills

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song IV, 42, 1321.

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• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Heart, Past

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

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