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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
— George Gordon Byron
Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
— Robert M. Drake
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
— Alain de Botton
And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me
— Ray Lamontagne
Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.
— Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.
— Robert M. Drake
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
— William Shakespeare
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
— Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.
— Robert M. Drake
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
— Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Hope,... which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion... It's a law of motion, a fact of physics..., no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
— Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
Can I join you at lunch?" She paused. "You have every other day." He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day." "What makes you think I won't resent it today?" "Hope. It's what I live on...
— Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.
— Christina Rossetti
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.
— Matthew Bellamy
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.
— Kahlil Gibran
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.
— John Hepworth
The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.
— R.N. Prasher
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing to put up a fight, was ill rewarded. For, while averting that revulsion which they found so unbearable, they also deprived themselves of those redeeming moments, frequent enough when all is told, when by conjuring up pictures of a reunion to be, they could forget about the plague. Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.
— John Paul II, Pope John Paul II: In My Own Words
What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.
— Mary Karr, Lit
All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found
— Lemony Snicket
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
— Chester Nimitz
If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.
— Shiro Amano, Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.
— Robert M. Drake
Life isn't just about darkness or light, rather it's about finding light within the darkness.
— Landon Parham, First Night of Summer
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
— Sara Zarr, Once Was Lost
We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
— Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.
— Bob Sorge, Glory: When Heaven Invades Earth
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.
— Jerome Groopman
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. 
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Behind us, the man laughed. "Looks like we aren't the only ones looking for a little diversion. There's an empty office right over there, guys." Marsten raised his hand in thanks. The couple moved on. I let the kiss continue for five more seconds, then pulled away. "They're gone," I said. Marsten frowned, as if surprised-and disappointed-that I'd noticed. I tugged my hair from his hands. "Okay, coast clear," I said. "Let's go." He let out a small laugh. "I see I need to brush up on my kissing." "No, you have that down pat." "She says with all the excitement of a teacher grading a math quiz..." "A-plus. Now let's move. Before someone else comes along.
— Kelley Armstrong, Chaotic
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.
— Sri Chinmoy, My Life's Soul-Journey: Daily Meditations for Ever-Increasing Spiritual Fulfillment
Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.
— Cora Carmack, Losing It
I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.
— Goenawan Mohamad, Pagi dan Hal-Hal yang Dipungut Kembali
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
— Eleanor Cameron, The Court of Stone Children
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
— Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.
— Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.
— Vincent van Gogh
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...
— Virgil, The Aeneid
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
— Chris Bradford, The Ring of Earth
Hope attracts chances.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.
— Robert M. Drake
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
— E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems
If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw
Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
— John Johnson
His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out.
— Aprilynne Pike, Spells
At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.
— Robert M. Drake
False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.
— Charlie Rae
I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
— Jonas Salk
Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.
— Sarah Addison Allen
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
— Barack Obama
Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.
— Jodi Picoult, Off the Page
I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...
— Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
— Alfred de Vigny, Stello
Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night.
— A.E. Housman
I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.
— Karen Marie Moning, The Alpha Alternative: JZB Sex Scene
Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.
— T.M. Frazier, King
with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26").
— Michele Woolley, God's Favor - Breath Of Heaven
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
— Jane Austen, Emma
Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.
— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless
—  we must hope for everything.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.
— Richelle Mead, Succubus on Top
What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
— Judy Collins
You can break a man with hope.
— Kate Morgenroth, Jude
With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.
— Robert M. Drake
Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning."­
— tayeb saleh, Season of Migration to the North
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
— Sharon Kay Penman, The Reckoning
She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.
— Robert M. Drake
Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me
— Carolyn Turgeon, Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
— Rebecca West
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
— John Green
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
— Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless: Tales of Transgression
We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.
— Anita Krishan
A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.
— Anosh Irani, The Cripple and His Talismans
hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.
— Amy Lane, Keeping Promise Rock
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.
— James E. Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
— Ricky Maye, An Emerging Spirituality
Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!...
— Will Brenner
But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope and all that led or droveUs back into the bosom of thy love.
— George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems
He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
— Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that?" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?
— Kelley Armstrong, Dates from Hell
Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.
— Rick Yancey, The Isle of Blood
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.
— Laurell K. Hamilton, Flirt
I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.
— Ally Carter, Only the Good Spy Young
IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
— Nadia Sahari, Breakaway: How I Survived Abuse
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.
— N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.
— Marilynne Robinson, Home
I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.
— Robert M. Drake
HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-..It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.
— Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go
You are only a prisoner when you surrender.
— Tad Williams, Shadowplay
How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you.
— Robert M. Drake
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end. 
— N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world—this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical.
— Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
— Robert M. Drake
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –Do not go in the direction of darkness –I tell you: suns exist.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207
— Norman Mailer, The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker & Bad Conscience in America
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
— Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
There was no hope in death, only an end.
— Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring
Fear is strange. It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone and collects in a soul-sized black hole, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasure, the beauty. But not the hope. Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive.
— Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.
— Bethany Griffin, Masque of the Red Death
To be unbroken, what would that be?If words that were spoken, had not shattered me
— ZOEgirl, Zoegirl - Different Kind of Free
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing
— Raymond Williams
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.
— Martin Keogh, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
— William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and not quite stepping on the cake of soap lying beside the pulled plug. A Nazi Oberleutnant burning a piece of paper with the date and place of the D-Day Invasion written on it. He saw a man who intended to poison the entire water supply of Denver die of a heart attack in a roadside rest-stop on I-80 in Iowa with a bag of McDonald’s French fries on his lap. He saw a terrorist wired up with explosives suddenly turn away from a crowded restaurant in a city that might have been Jerusalem. The terrorist had been transfixed by nothing more than the sky, and the thought that it arced above the just and unjust alike. He saw four men rescue a little boy from a monster whose entire head seemed to consist of a single eye.	But more important than any of these was the vast, accretive weight of small things, from planes which hadn’t crashed to men and women who had come to the correct place at the perfect time and thus founded generations. He saw kisses exchanged in doorways and wallets returned and men who had come to a splitting of the way and chosen the right fork. He saw a thousand random meetings that weren’t random, ten thousand right decisions, a hundred thousand right answers, a million acts of unacknowledged kindness. He saw the old people of River Crossing and Roland kneeling in the dust for Aunt Talitha’s blessing; again heard her giving it freely and gladly. Heard her telling him to lay the cross she had given him at the foot of the Dark Tower and speak the name of Talitha Unwin at the far end of the earth. He saw the Tower itself in the burning folds of the rose and for a moment understood its purpose: how it distributed its lines of force to all the worlds that were and held them steady in time’s great helix. For every brick that landed on the ground instead of some little kid’s head, for every tornado that missed the trailer park, for every missile that didn’t fly, for every hand stayed from violence, there was the Tower.	And the quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.
— Machado de Assis
Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.
— Harley King
Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.
— Robert M. Drake
I hope suffering don't exist.
— David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. 
— Arthur Golden
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
— Richard M. Rorty
Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.
— Holly Hood, Prison of Paradise
What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Hope is the most evil of all emotions
— Charity Parkerson, The Society of Sinners
Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.
— Richie Singh, Chasing Butterflies
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
— Christian Bovee
Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s.Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide.
— Charles M. Blow
What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
— Keith Ablow, Murder Suicide
Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.
— Shannon L. Alder
After all, tomorrow is another day.
— Margaret  Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not to someone else. They happened to Hope. They happened to Sky. They happened to the best friend that I loved all those years ago, and they happened to the best friend I love who’s looking back at me right now.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.
— Christie Craig, Shut Up and Kiss Me
The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,or drought,or dust.Hard times are about losing spirit,and hope,and what happens when dreams dry up.
— Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.
— Dave Ramsey
History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme
— Seamus Heaney
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
— Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.
— Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate
Scientifically, I know beginnings don't exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point- infinity. Lifelines aren't lines at all. They are more like circles.Its safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually.In other words, it doesn't matter where I begin. It doesn't change the end.
— Shannon Lee Alexander, Love and Other Unknown Variables
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
— Charles Du Bos
Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.
— Shannon L. Alder
I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.
— Melodie Ramone
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment.
— Jeanne McElvaney, Healing Insights: Effects of Abuse for Adults Abused as Children
***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.
— Lauren DeStefano, Wither
And then as the little plane climbed higher and Olive saw spread out below them fields of bright and tender green in this morning sun, farther out the coastline, the ocean shiny and almost flat, tiny white wakes behind a few lobster boats--then Olive felt something she had not expected to feel again: a sudden surging greediness for life. She leaned forward, peering out the window: sweet pale clouds, the sky as blue as your hat, the new green of the fields, the broad expanse of water--seen from up here it all appeared wondrous, amazing. She remembered what hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats below plowed the shiny water, the way the plane was plowing forward to a place new, and where she was needed.
— Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
Hope is the heartbeat of the soul~
— Michelle Horst
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,That star on life's tremulous ocean.
— Thomas   Moore
Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred
— Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands” (Richard Bach). And if not every problem, then just about every one. Even spectacular sunsets are not possible without cloudy skies. Troubles bring a gift for those who choose to look. And since I can't avoid my problems, why waste them? I should look for the gift. My life will be far, far richer for finding it.
— Steve Goodier
Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost, she was just there across the river, waiting for him to find her. Nick was not lost either--not entirely.It was then that Mikey McGill realized something. It must have been his sister who first called this place Everlost, because by naming it so, it stripped away all hope except for a faith in her, and the "safety" she could provide. Well, Mary was wrong on all counts, because nothing in Everlost was lost forever, if one had the courage to search for it.Mikey held tightly on to this shining truth as he and the golem sunk into the earth. Then with all the force of his heart, his mind, and his soul, Mikey McGill began to dig.
— Neal Shusterman, Everwild
Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life
—  gifted with hopes to succeed.
Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.
— Stacey T. Hunt, Most Wanted
Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!
— Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo
I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.
— Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading
Dear God  Please take away my pain and despair of yesterday and any unpleasant memories and replace them with Your glorious promise of new hope. Show me a fresh HS-inspired way of relating to negative things that have happened. I ask You for the mind of Christ so I can discern Your voice from the voice of my past. I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now. Help me to see all the choices I have ahead of me that can alter the direction of my life. I ask You to empower me to let go of the painful events and heartaches that would keep me bound. Thank You for Your forgiveness that You have offered to me at such a great price. Pour it into my heart so I can relinquish bitterness hurts and disappointments that have no place in my life. Please set me free to forgive those who have sinned against me and caused me pain and also myself. Open my heart to receive Your complete forgiveness and amazing grace. You have promised to bind up my wounds Psa 147:3 and restore my soul Psa 23:3 . Help me to relinquish my past surrender to You my present and move to the future You have prepared for me. I ask You to come into my heart and make me who You would have me to be so that I might do Your will here on earth. I thank You Lord for all that’s happened in my past and for all I have become through those experiences. I pray You will begin to gloriously renew my present.
— Sue Augustine, When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond  Fears That Hold You Back
Horses change lives. They give out young people confidence and self-esteem. They provide peace and tranquility to troubled souls, they give us hope.
— Toni Robinson
[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
— Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…
— Helen Keller, The Open Door
When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.
— Tana French, The Likeness
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
— Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.
— Cornel West, Race Matters
Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
— Suzanne Collins, Gregor and the Code of Claw
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.
— Robert M. Drake
To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was.Whatever mysterious plan God had for her life, it would be an interesting one. As Christy had said earlier, God writes a different story for each person. Sierra decided hers might not be a bestseller or even a thriller. It certainly wasn't a romance. But it was turning into a fine mystery. And she could live with that.
— Robin Jones Gunn, Sierra Jensen Collection, Vol. 2
I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.
— Robert M. Drake
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to dig in your heels and hang on. Must be nice to have hope in your pocket, like loose change you could jingle through your fingers.
— Judy Blundell, Strings Attached
Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act we witness an exhaustion, a sulkiness but on gaining consciousness, we’re rejuvenated and good humored. The wakefulness is the new beginning whereas the tension the disturbance we perceive each night is the weariness of the beginnings, of each day. So there never really is an end, all that there are are beginnings.Beginnings which are promising, which offer hope, which have a new leash on life, which neither denounce nor belittle rather soothe and console by reconstructing the broken pieces of yesterday, mending them and reinforcing them with courage and beauty like never before.
— Chirag Tulsiani
she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete
— Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
I embraced that hope for a moment, grabbed onto it with both hands, and held it close like the rare treasure it was. Then I let go of it, let it float away like a butterfly on a bright day, because the darkest part of the night was yet to come, and there was no place for it here.
— Jennifer Estep, Deadly Sting
You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that gave you hope when there wasn´t much hope.
— Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.
— Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle