I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Hopeless grief
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
James Tobin | Hope, Mankind
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
Seneca – Hope
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson – Hope
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucauld – Hope, Promise
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us – in the dreariest and most dreaded moments – can see a possibility of hope.
Maya Angelou – Rainbow, Hope
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou – Love, Hope
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero – Confidence, Hope
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
