Hope Quotes

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

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

~ George Eliot

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

There is hope in forgiveness

~ John Piper

Hope can get you through anything.

~ Jamie Ford

Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith.

~ Toba Beta

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

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

~ David Almond

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

~ Graham Greene

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

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

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

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

~ Naomi Benaron

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

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

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

~ Switchfoot

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

~ George Gordon Byron

Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

~ Alain De Botton

And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me

~ Ray Lamontagne

Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.

~ Michael A. Singer

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.

~ Robert M. Drake

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

~ George Eliot

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

~ William Shakespeare

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

~ Juliet Marillier

She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.

~ Robert M. Drake

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Can I join you at lunch? She paused. You have every other day. He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. Yes. But you resented it every other day. What makes you think I won't resent it today? Hope. It's what I live on...

~ Melissa Marr

One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?

~ Margaret Atwood

My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.

~ Virginia Woolf