Hope Quotes

Hope, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”

Delusion, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.

In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.