Without Hope Quotes

• Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hope, Oxygen, Wings

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• Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hell, Hopelessness, Entrances

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  Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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• Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Agonizing, Bread

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

  Saint Augustine

  No Hope, Without Love, No Love

  "Faith, Hope and Charity".

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• To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hope, Deep Thought, Hoping For The Best

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• It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hope, Disappointment, Ambition

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Waldo & Magic, Inc.”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

  Matthew Kelly

  People, Good Things, Given

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• There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hope, World, Emptiness

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Heart, Thankful To God

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• We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Hands, Legs

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Fear is vision without hope.

  Mark Driscoll

  Vision

  Mark Driscoll (2013). “Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ”, p.211, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Pursuit, Dies

  Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, Matthew Stover (2011). “The Prequel Trilogy: Star Wars”, p.293, Del Rey

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• Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Losing, Possibility, House Of Leaves

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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• Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Cease

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• I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Soccer, Hope, Water

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• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Comfort, Captivity

  The Rambler No. 67

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• People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Long, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.78, Macmillan

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• A man without hope is a man without fear.

  Frank Miller

  Hope, Men

  Frank Miller (2014). “Daredevil: Born Again”, p.212, Marvel Entertainment

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• Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Hope, Expectations

  Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.

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