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Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.I've heard it in the chilliest landAnd on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
— John Lennon
O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
— Barack Obama
A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.
— Emily Dickinson
The Christian says, 'Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or to be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.
— Guillaume Musso, Seras-tu là?
So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
A red-gold glow burst suddenly across the enchanted sky above them as an edge of dazzling sun appeared over the sill of the nearest window. The light hit both of their faces at the same time, so that Voldemort's was suddenly a flaming blur. Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco's wand:"Avada Kedavra!""Expelliarmus!"The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry saw Voldemort's green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high, dark against the sunrise, spinning across the enchanted ceiling, spinning through the air toward the master it would not kill, who had come to take full possession of it at last.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
— John Milton
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Dreams
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
— Marsilio Ficino, The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3
Hope costs nothing. 
— Colette
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
— John Calvin
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
— Jim Butcher, Changes
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
— Nelson Mandela
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
— Henry Rollins
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
— Patricia Briggs, Cry Wolf
And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
— Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
— Frederick Buechner, The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction
The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found.I'll take you there, you'd said.And I could say that I agreed.
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet we’ll have reached the tropopause, the great belt of calm air, as close as I’ll ever get to the ozone. I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening. But I saw something that only I could see because of my astonishing ability to see such things: Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles, and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them and was repaired. Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.
— Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika
Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.
— David Orr
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
T is not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.
— Eiichirō Oda
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
— Flannery O'Connor
I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
— Barack Obama
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope
— David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
— G.K. Chesterton
Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
— Margaret Stohl
While the heart beats, hope lingers.
— Alison Croggon
To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
— Thomas Browne, Prose: "Religio Medici" , "Hydriotaphia" , "Garden of Cyrus" , "Letter to a Friend" , "Christian Morals" and Selections from Other Works
May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately... These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.]
— Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he repeated. 'In the end, it's all a question of balance.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
— Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. 
— Arthur Rimbaud, Season in Hell  Other Poems
The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.
— Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
— Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
— Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
— Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Novels
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
— Allen Ginsberg
Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. 
— Paul Rogat Loeb, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.
— Perry Moore, Hero
Tell me what’s the differencebetween hope and waitingbecause my heart doesn’t knowIt constantly cuts itself on the glass of waitingIt constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
— Anna Kamieńska
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?'Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'Red: 'What're you talking about?'Andy: 'Hope.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
— Lemony Snicket, The End
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since,in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?
— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Václav Havel
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.
— Marie Lu, Champion
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden
— R.A. Salvatore, Sea of Swords
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
I inhale hope with every breath I take.
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
— Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy—it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source—harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. Somewhere, in all of that, I touched on something that wasn't tapped out, in spite of how horrible the past days had been, something that hadn't gone cold and numb inside of me. I grasped it, held it in my hand like a firefly, and willed its energy out, into the circle I had created with the spinning amulet on the end of its chain.
— Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
— Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again.
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
Hope keeps you alive.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.
— Roger Hedden, Bodies, Rest and Motion.
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
— Martina Boone, Compulsion
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
— James Hillman, Suicide and the Soul
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
— Shannon L. Alder
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
— Robert F. Kennedy
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.
— Eleventh Doctor
Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Hope?” he says. “There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.And sometimes it is enough.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Is there a chance?A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?A reason to fight?Is there a chance you may change your mind?Or are we ashes and wine?
— A Fine Frenzy
...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
— Robert M. Drake
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.
— Joyce Carol Oates
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
— Robert Ardrey
But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.
— Robert M. Drake
I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.
— Nina LaCour, Hold Still
I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.
— Stanley Kunitz
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.
— Joss Whedon
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes.Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret of hope's power. Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.
— Chris Hedges
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice:"Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?"Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that?How?! It must've been magic.
— Bo Burnham
A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.
— Lisa Kleypas, Seduce Me at Sunrise
that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we become afraid. of what might happen in the future. its okay to be afraid. but we have to keep hoping and believeing... to keep hoping and trying our best to be good and do good. even when we're afraid
— Nafisa Haji, The Writing on My Forehead
I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
— Lu Xun
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
— David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
— Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained.
— Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.
— Shannon K. Butcher
There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders. "I know I left you once."She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't. "I know I hurt you."Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't. "I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't". He slid the cloth over her arms. "If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.
— Kelley Armstrong, Living with the Dead
Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
— Ralph H. Blum
Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!
— Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me.""Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
— W.B. Yeats
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
— Alain de Botton
Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.”If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that?
— Sarah Dessen
We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
I am hope.
— Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you’re going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you. It counts when it’s hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world’s going to end and you’ve still got a long way to go.That’s when it counts. That’s when it matters the most.
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Everybody’s damaged. It’s just a question of how badly, and whether you’re healing or still bleeding.
— Angela N. Blount, Once Upon a Road Trip
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly.  Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet about us,half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
— Betty  Smith
Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?
— Andrew Davidson
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.
— Victor Hugo
Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.''Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.
— Dan Wells, Partials
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
— Thomas Fuller
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.
— Carol Matas, Daniel's Story
When by my solitary hearth I sit,When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.
— John Keats, The Complete Poems
Who you are is not determined by what you wear, the money in your wallet, nor how you look. Who you are is simply determined by who or what you follow. If you follow money you will only seek after such, giving your all for it. If you seek after what they call, 'fun,' your life will be aimed towards finding a way to fame, or a new way to party. If you follow the Lord Jesus your life will be given to Him, and the hopes and dreams you have will be in pleasing Him!! Everyone follows someone or something. Who will it be? Choose wisely- you are important!!
— Mary Kate
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
— Patrick Swayze
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.
— Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade
It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems
Carry the fire.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?"He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that."Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?"He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that you feel for me as I do for you," he said, his voice like a sigh against her throat.And how is that?" she asked, her lips so close to his jaw that she could taste the salt of his skin when she moved them.You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that."She smiled and let her eyes drift closed. They lay there together, under the bridge, city lights burning outside the windows like a sky full of falling stars, as they slid off into sleep
— Holly Black, Valiant
It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Please. Cry with me. Maybe there's nothing we can do about this. But at least, for now...cry with me. Like your entire body...is screaming at the sky. Like it's raging against the world. I lost something. And I don't have a single guarantee. The fear of living in this world again after that...I have only a shred of hope to sustain me. So I want you at least...to cry. Cry. Cry with me. Like the day you were first born into this world.
— Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 22
There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from thy brow,No night but hath its morn.Have love! not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call,And scatter like the circling sun,Thy charities on all.
— Friedrich Schiller
I made up my mind right then what I really wanted in my life. It was comfort of a home and a family. But more than that, I wanted love. I wanted love to surround me. I wanted to swim in it. I wanted to hold it in my hand like heated sand and pour it through my fingers so it covered my feet. I wanted to taste it, I wanted to smell it. I wanted to wrap myself up in it like a blanket and stay safe and warm inside of it forever. And I wanted to give it. I wanted to drown people in it. I wanted to love with all my heart and be loved just as much in return.
— Melodie Ramone, After Forever Ends
Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
— Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
— Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.
— Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea
Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.
— Crystal Woodman Miller
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
— Albert Pike
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
— Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
— H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?"It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her."Oh? What?"I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on."Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.
— Nancy Werlin, Impossible
Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
As long as there's life, there's hope.
— Tamora Pierce
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
— Peter Kreeft
Love is only one fine star away.
— Stevie Nicks
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
— Whoopi Goldberg
We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Failure is a greater teacher than success
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There is hope in forgiveness
— John Piper, A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
Hope can get you through anything.
— Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.
— Hal Lindsey
I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
— David Almond, My Name Is Mina
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
— Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be judged and thrown away from the circle of clowns. And yet he needs acceptance and security from sick society, which is discriminatory far too often. But a man is blinded by other people opinions. He wants to fly and they say, “You moron, you can't do that, it's forbidden, it's stupid.” And a man gives up on his dreams.
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
— Robert H. Goddard
I'm really hoping he’s being genuine because I can already tell he isn't the kind of guy a girl gets a simple crush on. He’s the kind of guy you fall hard for, and the thought of that terrifies me. I don’t really want to fall hard for anyone at all, especially someone who’s only making an effort because he thinks I'm easy. I also don’t want to fall for someone who has already branded himself hopeless. But I'm curious. So curious.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you.  I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us. 
— Lorna Byrne, Angels In My Hair
Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
— Naomi Benaron, Running the Rift
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes—forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.
— Switchfoot
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
— Christopher Reeve