We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear?
Hope Quotes
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.
Don’t pin much hope on the mail, and when the phone rings don’t expect anyone wonderful to be calling.
He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting.
“Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?” inquired Pandora. “I am to be called Hope!” answered the sunshiny figure. “And because I am such a cheery little body, I was packed into the box, to make amends to the human race for that swarm of ugly Troubles, which was destined to be let loose among them. […]
Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of the morrow.
It’s not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair… it’s the hope.
