Quotes About Hope

Hope is a delicate suffering.

— Imamu Amiri Baraka

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

— William Shakespeare

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible.  Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— G. K. Chesterton

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.  That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon.  They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

— Norman Cousins

While there’s life, there’s hope.

— Terence

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

— Francis Bacon

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

— Alexander Pope

Thou art my hope in the day of evil.

— Jeremiah 17:17

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

— George Savile

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

— Proverbs 13:12