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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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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
- Anton Chekhov
The Complete Short Novels
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Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
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Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
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What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?
- Richelle Mead
Succubus Dreams
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There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.
- Tom Hillman
Digging for God
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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
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We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
- Sir Thomas Browne
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
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Never give up.
It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
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Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.
- Lotchie Burton
Gabriel's Fire
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Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.
- Roshani Chokshi
The Gilded Wolves
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None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
- Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
- Ann Patchett
State of Wonder
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Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
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Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
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Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
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There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
- Kirk Cameron
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One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )
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Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.
- Gregory Dickow
Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
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When we cannot share our values any longer and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of common perspectives and commitments has irreversibly been broken, we might patently drift down into suspicion, remorse or regret. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak’. ("The unbreakable code " )
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Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
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He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
- Jamie Ford
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
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Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring
- Shushiki
Japanese Haiku
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If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.
- Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym
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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
- Anton Chekhov
The Complete Short Novels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?
- Richelle Mead
Succubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.
- Tom Hillman
Digging for God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
- Sir Thomas Browne
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never give up.
It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.
- Lotchie Burton
Gabriel's Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.
- Roshani Chokshi
The Gilded Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
- Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
- Ann Patchett
State of Wonder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
- Kirk Cameron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.
- Gregory Dickow
Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we cannot share our values any longer and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of common perspectives and commitments has irreversibly been broken, we might patently drift down into suspicion, remorse or regret. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak’. ("The unbreakable code " )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
- Jamie Ford
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring
- Shushiki
Japanese Haiku
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.
- Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?
- Anton Chekhov
The Complete Short Novels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What hope is there?" I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?
- Richelle Mead
Succubus Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.
- Tom Hillman
Digging for God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
- Sir Thomas Browne
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never give up.
It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.
- Lotchie Burton
Gabriel's Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.
- Roshani Chokshi
The Gilded Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
- Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
- Ann Patchett
State of Wonder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
- Kirk Cameron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland "with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black" and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.
- Gregory Dickow
Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we cannot share our values any longer and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of common perspectives and commitments has irreversibly been broken, we might patently drift down into suspicion, remorse or regret. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak’. ("The unbreakable code " )
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
- Jamie Ford
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
- Martina Boone
Compulsion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still...
Iris, blue each spring
- Shushiki
Japanese Haiku
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.
- Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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