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

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

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.  ~Titus Maccius Plautus

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

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.  ~Samuel Johnson

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.  ~Edgar Howe

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

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 begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.  ~Anne Lamott

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.  ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

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

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.  ~George Iles

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

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.  ~Author Unknown

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.  ~Norman Cousins

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.  ~Don Quixote

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 of Kincaldie, "Sonnet on Tobacco"

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

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

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.  ~Eric Hoffer

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

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

Hope is grief's best music.  ~Author Unknown

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.  ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

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

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.  ~Tertullian

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.  ~Lin Yutang

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

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.  ~Victor Hugo

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.  ~Robert Ingersoll