Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Elie Wiesel

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Eric Hoffer

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
Judy Garland

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose Bierce

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Ambrose Bierce

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
William Wordsworth

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Alexander Pope

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander Pope

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats