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What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them.
Jane Addams1860–1935Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922), Chapter 7: Personal Reactions During War
- Courage
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
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno, Canto III, line 9
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Empedocles on Etna (1852)
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience⁠—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XIXIn context
- Happiness
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Apophthegms (1624), No. 36
I’ve never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
Maria Bamfordborn 1970The Now Show (2006)
- Comedy
The cynic says “blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.” I say “blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can’t always be disappointed.”
Tallulah Bankhead1902–1968“I want everything” in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation … Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
- War & Peace
There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960Resignation speech in the House of Commons (23 April 1951)
- Politics
I would be the happiest man if the gloomy winter of mankind were to give way to a shaft of sunlight and to coloured flowers. The world is very beautiful.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto1928–1979Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 78—79
- Beauty
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 30:5 (KJV)In context
- Happiness
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:13 (KJV)In context
- Faith
- Love
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Library of Babel” (1941)
- Religion