"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." Christopher Reeve
"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops...at all." Emily Dickinson
"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." Eric Bentley
"Hope is the physician of each misery." Irish Proverb
"Hope is grief's best music." Author Unknown
"Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route." François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope." Titus Maccius Plautus
"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them." Vincent McNabb
"In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it hope." Edgar Howe
"When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God." Charles L. Allen
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting." Benjamin Franklin
"You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less." Author Unknown
"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." George Iles
"When hope is hungry, everything feeds it." Mignon McLaughlin
"Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier." Author Unknown
"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic." Norman Cousins
"It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable." Robert Brault
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable." Samuel Johnson
"Hope is but the dream of those who wake." Matthew Prior
"Hope is a path through a flowering meadow. One doesn't require that it lead anywhere." Robert Brault
"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate." Eric Hoffer
"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey." Ouida
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope." William Shakespeare
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come." Anne Lamott
"Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain." Samuel Johnson