Hope Quotes

In the darkest moments, hope is what remains. These words have helped people find light in the darkness.

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"Hope is the cruelest invention of mankind."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Hope is not optimism; it is the capacity to imagine something better despite evidence to the contrary."
François Mauriac
F
"Hope persists not because things will improve, but because we choose to believe they might."
François Mauriac
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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."
Emily Dickinson
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson
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"I have a Bird in spring which for myself doth sing."
Emily Dickinson
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"Take heart from the knowledge that unquestionably we shall triumph."
Herman Melville
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"Despair is often the first step toward awakening."
Herman Melville
N
"Hope is a Christian virtue that cannot be separated from faith."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"One cannot help hoping that the best will appear in people, though statistics might discourage such faith."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
N
"Hope is the pillar of the world."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hope is the last refuge of the desperate."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Hope is the poison we drink to forget our helplessness."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Hope is the pillar of the world."
Romain Rolland
"Hope is the antidote to despair."
Romain Rolland
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"Hope is not optimism; it is the refusal to surrender to despair."
François Mauriac
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"Hope is the thing that sustains us when reason has abandoned the field"
Henry James
"In the depth of despair, there lives hope."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Belief is now out of the question, but I no longer have the heart to hope for anything."
Marcel Proust
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Marcel Proust
M
"The future is hidden by hope."
Marcel Proust
"I am waiting for anything to happen which will give me some new interest in life."
André Gide
N
"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hope is the last thing to abandon us."
Romain Rolland
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"Every ending is a new beginning we do not yet understand."
François Mauriac
F
"To live without hope is to live without a future."
François Mauriac
F
"The human heart is incapable of despair until the moment of death."
François Mauriac
A
"Hope is the only thing more powerful than fear, and slightly less reliable."
Anatole France
"Hope is the cruelest gift because it delays despair."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Hope is the opiate of the conscious."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline