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Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,⁠—‘Wait and hope.’
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Wisdom
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871-72)In context
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot1819–1880Adam Bede (1859)
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book VI: The Widow and the Wife, Chapter LVIn context
- Youth
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.
George Eliot1819–1880Silas Marner (1861), Part I, Chapter XIVIn context
- Children
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
- Age
We continue to be inspired by the kindness of strangers and draw comfort that — even on the darkest nights — there is hope in the new dawn.
Elizabeth II1926–2022Christmas Broadcast (25 December 2020)
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
- Time
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIIn context
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter⁠—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning —
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Time
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes⁠—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part One, Chapter IIIn context
- Philosophy
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
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
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)
You can find something better than death everywhere
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), The Bremen Town-MusiciansIn context
- Life & Death