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Hope is the quiet force that keeps us moving forward, even when the path ahead feels uncertain. It shows up in small moments of courage, resilience, and belief that tomorrow can be better than today. The quotes that follow reflect the many ways hope lifts, steadies, and reminds us why we keep going.   ◀ Back
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On Hope

God forbid I talk about hope, it's so cliché.
Not that it doesn't exist, but it has become just that.
In a world of ready-made things, any effort is banal.
It must be delivered in liquid form,
Bauman and his diabolical lack of concreteness,
Liquid hope?
No, a lack of concrete hope.
Does it sound too romantic?
Maybe it does, and also,
resonates.
Isn't resonating in souls the desire of every poet,
every writer,
every thinker?
Is it only possible to resonate with that which is empty,
empty of itself?
Could it be that poets are nothing more
than empty completions,
resonating with one another?
In fact, perhaps that’s what it is.
- modernity, Weariness, Simulation, Fragmentation, Emptiness
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Her soul was a garden
blooming with hope
and with each new day
she tended to its weeds and wounds
bringing it ever slowly
back to life.
- Atticus Poetry
LVOE II
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You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones.
Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas.
But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot.
- Anton Sammut
Memories of Recurrent Echoes
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But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself. Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us. Confinement, solitude, our own toxic waste... Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up... A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.
- Sabrina Imbler
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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The sky is not the limit, it's the starting point in a universe of possibilities
- Dr Darius Singh
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It’s the mercy in our making that allows for these kinds of memories to win over the dark ones. Though they might haunt us and serve to protect us from harm, bad memories will always be lessened by those of light. Our survival depends on these rays of built-in grace, the thriving that urges us to hope.
- Robin Brown
Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
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Let me ask you another question, if I may,” Jake says. “Have you ever been in love?”

“Yes. Sure, I have,” she answered defensively.

“No. I mean really in love. The kind of love that makes you abandon all reason and throw caution to the wind. The kind of love that makes you trade logic for passion?
- Diane Merrill Wigginton
A Compromising Position
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I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.
- Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here
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This singing wind, this everlasting sky.
- H S J Williams
Moonscript
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Life is like coffee, sometimes when you feel you are drowned in hot water, life is actually brewing you to extract your true essence and spread the aroma of your inner self around.
- Dr Aman Kapoor
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Hope springs eternal, I guess, and is rarely questioned when it’s harbored by a woman whose idea of “Hello” sometimes involves frag grenades.
- Seanan McGuire
Pocket Apocalypse
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As in Gidastern, something came over Andry Trelland. Before he knew it, her gloved hand was at his mouth, his lips brushing over her knuckles.
She did not pull away, only staring, holding his gaze. For a moment, only her eyes existed, a black sky. He wanted to fill it with blazing stars.
"Hold on to afterward," he said to her hand. "Whatever your afterward is, hold on to it.
- Victoria Aveyard
Fate Breaker
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You know, birds always find their way home, no matter the distance. Perhaps you will, too.
- M.A. Kuzniar
Upon a Frosted Star
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When we see a broken piano, we still press its keys to see if it is playing, and this is called hope! Hope is a fascinating desire not to lose things!
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The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.
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The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught. I saw hope revive—and felt regeneration possible.
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I ate the very last food scraps,
starving for the light up above.
That was when I saw you new buds,
your stems reaching into the dark.

[Seeking Sanctuary]
- Susan L. Marshall
Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
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At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!"
'"Great God!" exclaimed the old man, "who are you?"
'At that instant the cottage door opened...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
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On earth, we can all be heroes— not in the sense of being solitary actors brandishing swords, but by daring to put down our defenses and take off the armor to really experience and feel what is happening in any given moment, without fighting or fleeing.
- Tracy Cochran
Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself
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Remember to not make the small things big, and do not make the big things bigger than God.
- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
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The little stories of love, kindness, peace, hope, and dreams are more important than the mega stories of money, fame, victory, and revenge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
- Pierce Brown
Golden Son
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Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.
- William Butler Yeats
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There was no hope in death, only an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Rebel Spring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Hope

God forbid I talk about hope, it's so cliché.
Not that it doesn't exist, but it has become just that.
In a world of ready-made things, any effort is banal.
It must be delivered in liquid form,
Bauman and his diabolical lack of concreteness,
Liquid hope?
No, a lack of concrete hope.
Does it sound too romantic?
Maybe it does, and also,
resonates.
Isn't resonating in souls the desire of every poet,
every writer,
every thinker?
Is it only possible to resonate with that which is empty,
empty of itself?
Could it be that poets are nothing more
than empty completions,
resonating with one another?
In fact, perhaps that’s what it is.
- modernity, Weariness, Simulation, Fragmentation, Emptiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her soul was a garden
blooming with hope
and with each new day
she tended to its weeds and wounds
bringing it ever slowly
back to life.
- Atticus Poetry
LVOE II
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones.
Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas.
But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot.
- Anton Sammut
Memories of Recurrent Echoes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself. Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us. Confinement, solitude, our own toxic waste... Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up... A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.
- Sabrina Imbler
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sky is not the limit, it's the starting point in a universe of possibilities
- Dr Darius Singh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s the mercy in our making that allows for these kinds of memories to win over the dark ones. Though they might haunt us and serve to protect us from harm, bad memories will always be lessened by those of light. Our survival depends on these rays of built-in grace, the thriving that urges us to hope.
- Robin Brown
Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let me ask you another question, if I may,” Jake says. “Have you ever been in love?”

“Yes. Sure, I have,” she answered defensively.

“No. I mean really in love. The kind of love that makes you abandon all reason and throw caution to the wind. The kind of love that makes you trade logic for passion?
- Diane Merrill Wigginton
A Compromising Position
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.
- Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This singing wind, this everlasting sky.
- H S J Williams
Moonscript
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is like coffee, sometimes when you feel you are drowned in hot water, life is actually brewing you to extract your true essence and spread the aroma of your inner self around.
- Dr Aman Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope springs eternal, I guess, and is rarely questioned when it’s harbored by a woman whose idea of “Hello” sometimes involves frag grenades.
- Seanan McGuire
Pocket Apocalypse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As in Gidastern, something came over Andry Trelland. Before he knew it, her gloved hand was at his mouth, his lips brushing over her knuckles.
She did not pull away, only staring, holding his gaze. For a moment, only her eyes existed, a black sky. He wanted to fill it with blazing stars.
"Hold on to afterward," he said to her hand. "Whatever your afterward is, hold on to it.
- Victoria Aveyard
Fate Breaker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, birds always find their way home, no matter the distance. Perhaps you will, too.
- M.A. Kuzniar
Upon a Frosted Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we see a broken piano, we still press its keys to see if it is playing, and this is called hope! Hope is a fascinating desire not to lose things!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught. I saw hope revive—and felt regeneration possible.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I ate the very last food scraps,
starving for the light up above.
That was when I saw you new buds,
your stems reaching into the dark.

[Seeking Sanctuary]
- Susan L. Marshall
Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!"
'"Great God!" exclaimed the old man, "who are you?"
'At that instant the cottage door opened...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On earth, we can all be heroes— not in the sense of being solitary actors brandishing swords, but by daring to put down our defenses and take off the armor to really experience and feel what is happening in any given moment, without fighting or fleeing.
- Tracy Cochran
Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember to not make the small things big, and do not make the big things bigger than God.
- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The little stories of love, kindness, peace, hope, and dreams are more important than the mega stories of money, fame, victory, and revenge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
- Pierce Brown
Golden Son
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.
- William Butler Yeats
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was no hope in death, only an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Rebel Spring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On Hope

God forbid I talk about hope, it's so cliché.
Not that it doesn't exist, but it has become just that.
In a world of ready-made things, any effort is banal.
It must be delivered in liquid form,
Bauman and his diabolical lack of concreteness,
Liquid hope?
No, a lack of concrete hope.
Does it sound too romantic?
Maybe it does, and also,
resonates.
Isn't resonating in souls the desire of every poet,
every writer,
every thinker?
Is it only possible to resonate with that which is empty,
empty of itself?
Could it be that poets are nothing more
than empty completions,
resonating with one another?
In fact, perhaps that’s what it is.
- modernity, Weariness, Simulation, Fragmentation, Emptiness
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her soul was a garden
blooming with hope
and with each new day
she tended to its weeds and wounds
bringing it ever slowly
back to life.
- Atticus Poetry
LVOE II
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You must understand that all of us are in the same boat which, at times, can find itself in calm seas and at others in rough ones.
Maybe you'll tell me that yours has only seen rough seas.
But know this... that a boat inured in rough seas comes out stronger than one anchored in port. The latter, in the heaven it enjoys, becomes more susceptible to rot.
- Anton Sammut
Memories of Recurrent Echoes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself. Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us. Confinement, solitude, our own toxic waste... Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up... A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.
- Sabrina Imbler
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sky is not the limit, it's the starting point in a universe of possibilities
- Dr Darius Singh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s the mercy in our making that allows for these kinds of memories to win over the dark ones. Though they might haunt us and serve to protect us from harm, bad memories will always be lessened by those of light. Our survival depends on these rays of built-in grace, the thriving that urges us to hope.
- Robin Brown
Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let me ask you another question, if I may,” Jake says. “Have you ever been in love?”

“Yes. Sure, I have,” she answered defensively.

“No. I mean really in love. The kind of love that makes you abandon all reason and throw caution to the wind. The kind of love that makes you trade logic for passion?
- Diane Merrill Wigginton
A Compromising Position
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.
- Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This singing wind, this everlasting sky.
- H S J Williams
Moonscript
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is like coffee, sometimes when you feel you are drowned in hot water, life is actually brewing you to extract your true essence and spread the aroma of your inner self around.
- Dr Aman Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope springs eternal, I guess, and is rarely questioned when it’s harbored by a woman whose idea of “Hello” sometimes involves frag grenades.
- Seanan McGuire
Pocket Apocalypse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As in Gidastern, something came over Andry Trelland. Before he knew it, her gloved hand was at his mouth, his lips brushing over her knuckles.
She did not pull away, only staring, holding his gaze. For a moment, only her eyes existed, a black sky. He wanted to fill it with blazing stars.
"Hold on to afterward," he said to her hand. "Whatever your afterward is, hold on to it.
- Victoria Aveyard
Fate Breaker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You know, birds always find their way home, no matter the distance. Perhaps you will, too.
- M.A. Kuzniar
Upon a Frosted Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we see a broken piano, we still press its keys to see if it is playing, and this is called hope! Hope is a fascinating desire not to lose things!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught. I saw hope revive—and felt regeneration possible.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I ate the very last food scraps,
starving for the light up above.
That was when I saw you new buds,
your stems reaching into the dark.

[Seeking Sanctuary]
- Susan L. Marshall
Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. I had not a moment to lose, but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, "Now is the time! Save and protect me! You and your family are the friends whom I seek. Do not desert me in the hour of trial!"
'"Great God!" exclaimed the old man, "who are you?"
'At that instant the cottage door opened...
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On earth, we can all be heroes— not in the sense of being solitary actors brandishing swords, but by daring to put down our defenses and take off the armor to really experience and feel what is happening in any given moment, without fighting or fleeing.
- Tracy Cochran
Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember to not make the small things big, and do not make the big things bigger than God.
- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The little stories of love, kindness, peace, hope, and dreams are more important than the mega stories of money, fame, victory, and revenge.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
- Pierce Brown
Golden Son
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.
- William Butler Yeats
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was no hope in death, only an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Rebel Spring
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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