Hope Quotes

“I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.”

-- Sarah McLachlan

“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.”

-- John Buchan

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

-- Jim Henson

“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.”

-- Robert Capa

“If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.”

-- Charles Schumer

“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”

-- Luc de Clapiers

“What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.”

-- Laura Linney

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”

-- Gustave Flaubert

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

-- Henry Miller

“You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.”

-- Tony Kushner