Hope Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about hope.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Hope, only hope, nothing else, you reach a point where there is nothing but hope, and then we discover that we still have everything.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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Even though we have evidence that we are to live constantly in darkness and gloom, without purpose and without end, we must have hope.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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That was all a man needed: hope. It was the lack of hope that sank a man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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He who has lost hope has also lost fear: that's what the word 'desperate' means.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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Every creature, at birth, brings us the message that God still does not lose hope in mankind.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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Hope sustains us, but like on a taut rope.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Providence has given us sleep and hope as compensation for the cares of life.

Emil Cioran

Emil Cioran

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No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy

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Every time a man defends an ideal, acts to improve the fate of others, or fights against an injustice, he transmits a tiny wave of hope.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.