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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Apophthegms (1624), No. 36
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 375In context
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno, Canto III, line 9
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller1880–1968Optimism (1903)
- Success
Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Waring, ii.
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 117
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
The time for the healing of the wounds has come.
The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come.
The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Inaugural celebration address (1994)
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 84
- Charity
- Faith
To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999), Page 52
- Truth & Lies
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel1936–2011Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5: The Politics of Hope
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Joke (1967), Pt. 3, ch. 3
- Comedy
There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope⁠—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 133
- Motivation & Goals
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)