14,384 Quotes About Hope

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound;His strength the more is.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.

Books open the doors that others have closed on you.

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

Love is hard. We try to love one another. But generally the quality and quantity of our love for one another is found wanting, because we find it difficult, if not impossible, to look beyond those things that are ugly and unlovable in those we try to love. Even though the things that are ugly and unlovable in ourselves are the very things that cause us to cry out for love.