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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
- Love
- Youth
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Jonathan HarkerIn context
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 40:31 KJV
- Faith
There’s no hope, but I may be wrong.
Pete Seeger1919–2014NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)
Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Empedocles on Etna (1852)
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871-72)In context
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Re: United States Committee for UNICEF (25 July 1963)
- Children
He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Étui de nacre: Le Procurateur de Judée [Mother of Pearl: The Procurator of Judea] (1892)
- Fear
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 34
Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning1812–1889“A Death in the Desert”, Dramatis Personae (1864), line 586
- Change
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology (1968)
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 9:2 KJV
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Marriage