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
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. -Robert G. Ingersoll
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. -Christopher Reeve
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. -Titus Maccius Plautus
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Love floods us with hope. -Jareb Teague
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
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
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
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. -Marian Zimmer Bradley
