It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Hope
The voting booth joint is a great leveller, the whole neighbourhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.
-David Byrne "David Byrne"
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-Francis Bacon
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
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
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
-Christopher Reeve
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-Benjamin Franklin
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
-William Shakespeare
