Wisdom Quotes, page 115

“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

“Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

“Hope is many things, but it throws itself against fact and shatters.”

“Because I do not hope to turn again.”

“He who lives on hope will die fasting.”

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

“People cannot live without hope; this is one of the statements I can defend without any reservations.”

“In so great a danger, the faintest hope should be considered.”

“We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.”

“It is a human survival trait, and without it we perish.”

“Hope of consciousness is strength.”

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.”

“History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.' But then, once in a lifetime, the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up and hope and history rhyme.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

“A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope: you realize you never needed it in the first place.”

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”

“The triumph of hope over experience.”

“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.”

“Hope destroys pleasure.”

“One's thoughts turn towards hope.”

“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.”

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”

“While life remains, it is well.”

“Hope hurts. That's what you need to learn, and fast, if you don't want it to cut you open from the inside out.”

“Hope only got you hurt. Hope was her least favorite thing of all.”