Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Hope is a strange invention a Patent of the Heart in unremitting action yet never wearing out.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
