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Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scientifiction, I regret the lack of any female writers but only Radclyffe Hall opened my eyes outside sci-fi.I was a secular humanist before I knew the term. I have not believed in God since childhood's end. I believe a belief in any deity is adolescent, shameful and dangerous. How would you feel, surrounded by billions of human beings taking Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy and the stork seriously, and capable of shaming, maiming or murdering in their name? I am embarrassed to live in a world retaining any faith in church, prayer or a celestial creator. I do not believe in Heaven, Hell or a Hereafter; in angels, demons, ghosts, goblins, the Devil, vampires, ghouls, zombies, witches, warlocks, UFOs or other delusions; and in very few mundane individuals--politicians, lawyers, judges, priests, militarists, censors and just plain people. I respect the individual's right to abortion, suicide and euthanasia. I support birth control. I wish to Good that society were rid of smoking, drinking and drugs.My hope for humanity - and I think sensible science fiction has a beneficial influence in this direction - is that one day everyone born will be whole in body and brain, will live a long life free from physical and emotional pain, will participate in a fulfilling way in their contribution to existence, will enjoy true love and friendship, will pity us 20th century barbarians who lived and died in an atrocious, anachronistic atmosphere of arson, rape, robbery, kidnapping, child abuse, insanity, murder, terrorism, war, smog, pollution, starvation and the other negative “norms” of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter million pieces of sf and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist who would have been an accepted citizen of Utopia.
— Forrest J. Ackerman
The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life's hassles.
— Christine M. Knight, Life Song
...maybe she's a slut because she's lonely, she's sad, she's hoping someone or something will make the lonely and sad go away.It won't, of course. It never does. But nonetheless, there's not a girl who's more hopeful than a slut, more optimistic. She may give in but she doesn't give up. She keeps looking, she keeps hoping, she's always waiting for that someone who will say it: I love you, too.
— Diana Joseph, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog
My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.
— Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening in others. Unjustified hope - salvation for the weak in spirit and intellect - irritates me. But the loss of hope is the paralysis, even the death, of the soul. Sveta, let us hope, while we still have strength to hope.
— Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
I hope your heart feels better. I hope your mind is set right.I hope your love is connected to others, and you don't feel so lost and locked up.I hope everything is okay for you. And by okay, I mean greater than ever.
— Shailee J-N
And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.
— Jessica Soffer, Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
Morning dew upon the grass,glistening in the sun.Yesterday’s gone,tomorrow may come,but this day has begun.
— Calvin W. Allison, Shadows Over February
Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
— Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.
— Harper Lee
In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?
— Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions
With every choice you create the life you’ll live
—  with every decision you design it.
Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?
— Mollie Marti
I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.He said, "if you dare come a little closer".
— Rihanna
You're all incredibly thoughtful souls who keep my head attached to my body.
— Jenny Sampirisi, Croak
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
— William Morris
We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.
— Agatha Christie
Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.
— Patti Snodgrass
She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?
— Sage Steadman, Upon Destiny's Song
Y por que el sol es tan mal amigodel caminante en el desierto?Y por que el sol es tan simpaticoen el jardin del hospital?And why is the sun such a bad companionto the traveler in the desert?And why is the sun so congenial in the hospital garden?
— Pablo Neruda
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love
— Stendhal
Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.
— John M. Simmons, The Marvelous Journey Home
Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.
— John Keats
Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES'today.
— M. Howson
No rain can't get the rainbow.
— ayumi hamasaki rainbow
Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don’t worry; even if you can’t find it, a new hope will come and find you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away.
— Anthony Liccione
O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say.
— Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
Lord, help us root our feet to the earthAnd our eyes to the roadAnd always remember the fallen angelsWho, attempting to soar,Were seared instead by the sun and, wings melting,Came crashing back to the sea.Lord, help root my eyes to the earthAnd stay my eyes to the roadSo I may never stumble.)
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love?
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
— Matthew Quick, Boy21
We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
— M.T. Anderson, The Kingdom on the Waves
Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.
— John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life
I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.
— Mary Beth Miller, Aimee
If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said thatevery mushroom cloud has a silver lining.
— Adam Young Owl City  Cave In
In the meantime, I’llwish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper
— Julie Ann Knudsen, In the Middle of Nowhere
It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.
— Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.
— Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe
When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can’t describe.”“We all felt it,” Nick said.“You may have felt it, but I caused it.” Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. “Something changed out there. I don’t know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn’t deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it.” Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table.“What if,” said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, “what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?”Clarence chuckled at the thought. “I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.”“But you do think that something changed. . . .”“I don’t know whether it’s good or bad.”“What if it’s neither?” suggested Nick. “What if we get to make it one or the other?
— Neal Shusterman, Everfound
Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.
— Harley King
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
— Toni Morrison
Your tears are my prayers.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers.I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.
— Stephanie Nielson, Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
Your words like wings gravity they defy.My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more.
— Group 1 Crew
Never take today for granted, tomorrow might never come.
— Matt Vella
Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
And hope is but a dream of those that wake.
— Matthew Prior
Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.
— Agnes Kamara-umunna, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.
— Stephanie Nielson
It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.
— Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz
The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail.
— V.S. Carnes
Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.
— Alegna G. Granados
No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have beenSince Good, though only thought,Has life and breath -God's life - can always be redeemed from death.And evil in its nature is decay,And any hour may blot it all away.The hope that lost in some far distance seems,May be the truer life, and this the dream.
— Adelaide Anne Procter
...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
— Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
— Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
— N.K. Jemisin
Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.
— Charles de Lint
There is a period for hope and one for mourning.
— Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy
— Carolyn Marsden, The Buddha's Diamonds
Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.
— Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture
Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound
— His strength the more is.
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
— Giacomo Casanova
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.
— Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be
Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan
— Mary Balogh, The Temporary Wife
They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.
— Francesca Lia Block, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.
— Charles Bracelen Flood, Lee The Last Years
Books open the doors that others have closed on you.
— Shannon L. Alder
No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.
— Joanne Harris
Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.
— Dean Koontz, Intensity
Love is hard. We try to love one another. But generally the quality and quantity of our love for one another is found wanting, because we find it difficult, if not impossible, to look beyond those things that are ugly and unlovable in those we try to love. Even though the things that are ugly and unlovable in ourselves are the very things that cause us to cry out for love.
— Doug Worgul, Thin Blue Smoke
There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness
We live in a time that hungers for HOPE; to believe in MIRACLES and DREAMS, for without these soul gems, humanity is ripped at the seams.
— Debi Tibbles, All Aboard! How Ollie Tibbles Became a Train
Everyone has to have hope in their life, or they will eventually become your enemy.
— Jim Morris
Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.
— James Alan Gardner, Ascending
An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.
— Rue Allyn
You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.
— Kent Allan Rees, Molly Withers and the Golden Tree
Despair wishes their hope diminishes.
— Sherina Gandia
[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
What will you do now with the gift of your left life?
— Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...
— Calvin Miller, The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave.Or so she'd thought.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese?
— Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World
From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure accents of virgins and the innocent accent of children, -- voices which are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant still hears, and which the dying man hears already. This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees.They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that they must kneel.These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house. While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding.The song died away. It may have lasted a long time. Jean Valjean could not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment.
— Victor Hugo
So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.
— Jocelyn Green, Faith Deployed...Again: More Daily Encouragement for Military Wives
Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, think and live fashionably; virtue and honour will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed, self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honour will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. In short, Davey, God is not dead. And I can assure you God is not mocked.
— Robertson Davies, The Manticore
Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
— Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan
It's okay. You're going to save me, Miss Maylene." The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. "I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.
— Melissa Marr, Graveminder
The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.
— Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives.
— Wilford W. Andersen
Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved objarka burji.Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but Daj called her mira again, and when she asked Drina what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family."Family. It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too."Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road. I walk until I come to a pile of hay bales and plop myself down. The sun is bright and the air is sharp. In the distance I hear the lowing of cows. It's so peaceful here."Merry Christmas, " I whisper to myself. "Merry Christmas, Nate.
— Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World
I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day amongst those days which never dawned, and will not set, an angel entered Hades — stood, shone, smiled, delivered a prophecy of conditional pardon, kindled a doubtful hope of bliss to come, not now, but at a day and hour unlooked for, revealed in his own glory and grandeur the height and compass of his promise: spoke thus — then towering, became a star, and vanished into his own Heaven. His legacy was suspense — a worse boon than despair.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.
— Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream
Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?
— Ionel Teodoreanu, Tudor Ceaur Alcaz
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
— Patricia Christian Punches, Even When Life Doesn't Play Nice: One Child's Journey from Unfavorable Beginnings a Memoir
It took more than science to make hope real.
— Jerome Groopman
...любопытство - один из признаков надежды...
— Vladislav Krapivin, Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...
...утро приносит мыслям ясность и прогоняет сказки.
— Vladislav Krapivin, Застава на Якорном поле. Крик петуха.
Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bearone more needle, one more insane orange pill,my sister, in silence, stood at the endof the bed and slowly rubbed her feet,which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin,and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails,which changed nothing in time exceptthe way my mother was lost in it for a whileas if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve.And then, with her eyes closed, my mother saidthe one or two words the living have for gratefulness,which is a kind of forgetting, with a senseof what it means to be alive long enoughto love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me,I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed lowand kind, or what failures and triumphsof the body and spirit brought her to that point—just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope.
— Jason Shinder
В тяжкие времена безотчётного страха и неясности судьбы я нашёл простое и доступное всякому лекарство от душевной смуты: в Доме Капитанов я неспешно разглядывал судовые модели. Созерцание крошечных каравелл и фрегатов, где сочеталась неторопливая мудрость, кропотливость мастеров с воспоминаниями о плаваниях вокруг неоткрытого мира, успокаивает человека, возвращая ему равновесие духа, ясное сознание и надежду...(Капитан-командор Космофлота Элиот Красс д'Эспиноза)
— Vladislav Krapivin, Застава на Якорном поле. Крик петуха.
There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever ismore than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or Icould not live.
— H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
— Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life
Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things
— Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
~Tonight's Sea~Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze With our hearts. Today, I am restless, Waiting for tonight's meet. I cannot believe how endlessThese hours can be. I hope the constellationsAre aligned. For tonight we'll seeWhere our connection wanders. I'll hold on to this dream. My grip isn't fading. My memory isn't gone. Tonight we will be wadingIn the sea waters of love. -Rachel Nicole Wagner Original
— Rachel Nicole Wagner
Believe in the hope of your Life Illusion because this is the only real thing that you posses!
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by.
— Kate Seredy, The Chestry Oak
But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.
— Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Praying is pleasing to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To live with hope is to seek heavenly help.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.—Toni Morrison, “No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear,” The Nation, 23 Mar. 2015
— Toni Morrison
Don’t allow your crisis to become a crisis of faith.
— Richie Norton
Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
It's when you sit alone with your thoughts that you begin to miss what you have left behind. That is when the tears start. That is when you feel so down. That is when you are the most vulnerable.But we can't change what is done. We can only hope that the fallout is not nuclear.
— Anthony T.Hincks
It is always better to look at the bright side of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
When my worldwas nothing but darknessI set my soul on fire.
— Liz  Newman, Hope Between Heartbeats
Your purpose will fuel your hope.
— Akiroq Brost
Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.
— Frederick Douglass
We are more than our traumaWe are not our diagnosisWe are more than the worst thingsthat have ever happened to us
— Janelle Maree, To Whom It May Concern
Lifeless life is the very thing Jesus came to rescue us from.
— Erin M. Straza, Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You
The world needs more beautiful things.
— Paula Stokes, Hidden Pieces
It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.
— Aly Martinez, The Brightest Sunset
Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.
— Ryan Graudin, Invictus
Но все же во мне живет безумная надежда. Снисходительно посмеиваюсь сама над собой. Ребенком я так же упрямо надеялась, что никогда не умру. Надежда представляется мне слепым кротом, он живет во мне и лелеет безумные планы. Не в силах прогнать его, я вынуждена с ним примириться.
— Marlen Haushofer, Die Wand: Roman
If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be saved.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To repent is to return to God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.
— George Orwell, 1984
Hope is victory in any hardship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are in your own prison.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of prayer is the purity of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Praying is a realm of possibilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What God has planned for us is far better than what we desire to behold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to hope less than to be hopeless.
— Ogwo David Emenike
I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
May the Good Lord always watch over you and fill your days with hope.
— Latika Teotia
Hope-it was a fire that lit the soul, a belief in both the impossible and in everything imaginable, the budding anticipation of joy, waiting with each breath.
— Kate Breslin, High As the Heavens
I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.
— Cody Edward Lee Miller
Fear is the greatest prison.Hope is the greatest freedom.
— Filipe de Lima Coelho
...hope. Simple hope.It was something we all deserved.
— E. M. Crane
I guess I think differently than most folks. I think the reason the world is a mystical, enchanting place, is because of the cycle of life. My body will decompose, but maybe some little element of it will be transformed into a particle of dirt, over years and years,and then a glorious flower will be nurtured by this particle of dirt. Then this flower will nourish a random bumblebee, who in turn will be eaten by a raven. So, in some future life, I'll be able to fly. I look forward to that. I've always admired the freedom of birds.
— E. M. Crane
When you feel unsatisfied in your life, you must immediately take action to change your perspective, thoughts, and activity. If you stay longer than necessary in your unhappy state you will find yourself sinking deeper and deeper into misery. Fortunately, no matter how deep you fall into dissatisfaction you will always be able to change your life for the better through positive action.
— Avina Celeste
So I was a stone in the sea. Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to swim and so I sank to the bottom with no will to turn back. ”I’m tired,” I told him. ”I’m done”.But he wouldn’t let me and he held me up even on his hardest days and he was a lighthouse when all I saw was darkness.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I like who I am when I'm with her. And I hope that she feels the same way. If she doesn't, we shouldn't be together, no matter how I feel about it.
— Jennifer Linsky, Flowers of Luna
But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore. Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities. Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world’s Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island’s topography, it’s climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand.
— Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.
— Gerrit Achterberg, Snow Passage
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The mere fact that things are not working well does not mean things cannot work well. Mind your lens
—  check your understanding!
Sometimes, however, there is more than hope.Sometimes there is reason.
— Elizabeth Haydon, The Assassin King
Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope.
— Félix J. Palma, The Map of the Sky
If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your heart one day.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
Something about Tilo’s new home reminded Musa of the story of Mumtaz Afzal Malik, the young taxi driver whom Amrik Singh had killed, whose body had been recovered from a field and delivered to his family with earth in his clenched fists and mustard ﬂowers growing through his fingers. That story had always stayed with Musa – perhaps because of the way hope and grief were woven together in it, so tightly, so inextricably.
— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
When the days become darkThe nights become coldAnd all there is, is an empty soulBelieve you can escape your plightEven when relief is out of sightDon't you dare give up the fightDon't you dare
— Evy Michaels
Never declare Fate your enemy; she does not take lightly declarations of war. Declare your friendship to her instead, and smile in hope of better days.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Empire of Guanduania
the hope of a better future belongs to us!
— Manuel Corazzari
You must believe in yourself, otherwise we are all lost to darkness
— Robert Ian Wilson, Egbert's World
The glass is half full, the glass is half empty or nothing is in the glass, these are the metaphorical situations created by our mind to give ourselves hope, which is to expect something better in the future or to hold on to what we have in hand. Success is always about playing these situations to perfection. The level of our play will be proportionate to the level of hope, which again is a laborious form of a wish. A wish is belief in miracles but a hope is working to get due returns against the invested efforts.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.
— Jeff Bauman, Stronger
Let's gather the world in a game of love with the goal of kicking our tears past Eternity & she'll kick the earth into humanity.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Hope because the Universe hears you. Hope because the Universe works for you. Hope because the Universe speaks to you. Hope because the Universe will finish what it began in you.
— Drishti Bablani
Why look so far?When it is so near!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Do not lose heart. Hang on to hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In every circumstance, keep calm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,and for one another. We need each other to survive.I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Lookfor them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in the midst of great pain, and to love another when the pain of this life grows too large for one person to hold. This book offers the skills needed to make that kind of love a reality.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Everything will work out... don't give up hope, remain calm.
— Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.
— Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Major Works
You're not defeated when you lose a battle.You are defeated when you give up the struggle
— Mouloud Benzadi
There is hope for the sinner! Salvation is there for the unbelief! The saved don’t need salvation; they only need to be strengthened for the rescue work! Absolute repentance, a true faith and hope in Jesus Christ are the most important things the sinner and the unbelief need for a true salvation in Christ!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.
— Barbara Avon, My Love is Deep
When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.
— Barbara Avon, Briana's Bistro
Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait.Despair says:all you have left of her is your bitterness.Beat, heart…The earthhas not swallowed everything.
— Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla
Maybe those stories did more harm than good by giving us false hope. All they did was reinforce our faith that the world was once made up almost entirely of magic or miracles. But where was that magic now, when we needed it?
— Aditi Khorana, The Library of Fates
Denial is the inevitable consequence of those who are presented with disastrous scenarios without being offered an avenue for success. That is why we need to maintain a hopeful attitude.
— Ashavan
My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from home life, and to immerse myself in the lives of strangers in the hope that my work will have an impact and connect people in some intangible way, that I can contribute some greater good.
— Finbarr O'Reilly, Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
The sight of a palm tree silhouetted against the sky made even his life feel like a movie
— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair.
— Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view
—  there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.
Beauty is one of the strangest things. It never comes without the pain. But it always comes...eventually.
— Madilyn Vae
Over the years I have felt many things leave me.	People do not change, but yet somehow time alters everything.	As the years roll on people are not quite as forgiving, nor quite as kind, hopeful, loving.
— Ross  Turner, Jenson
Life does appear to be unfair at times. We are overwhelmed by our problems and get into sadness mode. Take a hard look at what you are confronted with, try to analyze it and see what life wants you to see. Maybe you need to make changes and you will surely see a way out. Life has thrown a challenge at you; it hasn’t knocked you out, so why should you declare that you’re down and out? While there’s life there’s hope and where there is hope there is always a way out. So don’t give up.
— Latika Teotia
Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.
— Cameron Dokey, Kissed:  Once Upon A Time Omnibus Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child
There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .
— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
I always ask myself. Who was it that dyed my heart black, and left a spot for it to grow out from it?
— Solitude's Friend
Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.
— Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Happy ending aren't just for royalty. Happy ending are for all of us.
— Emma Chase, Royally Endowed
I hear my mom pray every night about how she misses meI want nothing to happen to my little brother the way it happened to meI tell my mom, Keep your head up and stay strong, because I am getting good care in heavenI worry about nothing because Jesus has my backI cry and Jesus comes and wipes my tears from my faceI try to make it to the NBA in heavenI hope everyone is not worried about meI am Brandon in heaven, having fun.
— Michelle  Kuo, Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship