To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.  ~Pearl S. Buck

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  ~Mark Twain

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life.  ~Ana Jacob20110526-contest

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Never deprive someone of hope – it may be all they have.  ~Author Unknown

God sends the dawn
that we might see
the might-have-beens
that still might be.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It’s all one thing – both tend into one scope –
To live upon Tobacco and on Hope,
The one’s but smoke, the other is but wind.
~Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton)of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"

You’ve gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is the poor man’s bread.  ~Gary Herbert

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.  ~Baruch Spinoza

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.  ~Vincent McNabb

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.  ~Robert G. IngersollCUL

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of God.  ~Charles L. AllenMCDD

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.  ~Eric Bentley

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.  ~Emily Dickinson

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.  ~Tertullian

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.  ~Ouida

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.  ~Thomas Hardy

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.  ~Matthew Prior

The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing. ~Terri Guillemets

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.  ~Vauvenargues, Reflections and Maxims, 1746LCD