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Quotes About Hope

You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?
~ Elizabeth Lowell
It's better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can't be yours, then never to love at all.
~ Eloisa James
And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.
~ Elton John
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
~ Emily Dickinson
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
~ Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
~ Euripides
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
~ Fanny Burney
In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.
~ Fernando Perez
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
~ Francis Bacon
For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
~ Francis Quarles
I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
~ George Chapman
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!
~ George Edward Woodberry
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.
~ George Eliot
There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
~ George Herbert
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
~ George Herbert
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
~ George MacDonald
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
~ George R. R. Martin
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
~ George Santayana
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton