hope quotations

The hope of life returns with the sun.
- Juvenal

The hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.
- Basil, Bishop of Caesarea

The hopes that lost in some far distance seem, may be the truer life, and this the dream.
- Adelaide Ann Procter

The mighty hopes that make us men.
- Tennyson

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
- Shakespeare

The most universal thing is hope, for hope stays with those who have nothing else.
- Thales

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
- Samuel Johnson

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes-or it prospers; and anon, like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty face, lighting a little hour or two -is gone.
- Omar Khayyam

There is hope for the living but none for the dead.
- Theocritus

Things past belong to memory alone; things future are the property of hope.
- John Home