| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Att hoppas är något underligt, ja något mycket besynnerligt. | Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) |
| Den fattige lever av hoppet, den rike av fruktan. | Finsk Ordtak |
| Den får mager mat som skall leva av hopp | Dansk Ordtak |
| den som hoppas har allt, den som ej hoppas har misst allt | Svensk Ordtak |
| Den som aldrig har hoppats kan aldrig förtvivla. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Den som lever på hoppet blir i alla fall inte tjock | Tilla Durieux |
| Den som lever på hoppet blir åtminstone inte tjock | Tilla Durieux |
| Det går aldrig så bra som man hoppas, och aldrig så dåligt som man fruktar. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Det uppstår tomhet där hoppet dör. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Det är bättre att tända ett ljus än att förbanna mörkret. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| Där det finns liv finns det hopp. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Exil livnär sig på hopp. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| frukta det värsta, hoppas på det bästa, och ta det som det kommer. | Svensk Ordtak |
| Hopp är en risk som måste tas. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Hopp är inget annat än tro. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Hopp: Sammanslagning av önskan och förväntan. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Hoppas alltid på det bästa men förvänta det värsta. | Ordsprog, danske |
| Hoppet är den olyckliges andra själ. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Hoppet är den svages viljestyrka. | Henry Millon de Montherlant (1896-1972) |
| Hoppet är det sista man släpper. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Hoppet är en bra sak - kanske den bästa saken, och bra saker dör aldrig. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Hoppet är en dagdröm. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Hoppet är en dålig vägvisare men en underbar följeslagare | George Savile Halifax |
| Hoppet är en god frukost, men en dålig middag. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Hoppet är en mycket mager diet | Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) |
| Hoppet är en risk man måste ta. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Hoppet är en vaken dröm. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| hoppet är förväxlingen mellan önskan om att något kommer att hända och sannolikheten för att det gör det. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Hoppet är lika skört som blommorna på marken | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Hoppet är ljusgrönt. | Alexander Kielland (1849-1906) |
| Hoppet är längtans blomster, tron är vishetens frukt | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Hoppet är ofta en jakthund utan spår. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| hoppet är passivitetens syster | Kurt Narvesen (1948-) |
| hoppet är regnbågen över livets forsande bäck | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| I var och en av oss fanns det något dött, för hoppet var borta | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Ingen behöver skämmas över att hoppas | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Jag har alltid hört att ett gott hopp är bättre än en dålig besittelse | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Man skall hoppas på det bästa, det värsta kommer av sig självt. | Dansk Ordtak |
| Man skall inte sträcka skenbenen och hoppet för långt fram. | Epiktetos (50-140) |
| Människans starkaste egenskap är att alltid hoppas. | Alf Larsen (1885-1967) |
| Vad är livet om man inte kan hoppas? | Svensk Ordtak |
| Välsignad är den som aldrig förväntar sig något för han ska aldrig bli besviken. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| At håbe er - i modsætning til hvad man tror - det samme som at resignere. Og at leve, det er ikke at resignere. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| For enden af mørket er der uundgåeligt et lys, som vi allerede kan skimte, og som vi blot skal kæmpe for at nå. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Håbet er naturens slør for at skjule sandhedens nøgenhed. | Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) |
| Den, som lever på håbet, dør fastende | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home. | Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) |
| At håbe vil sige at dementere fremtiden. | Emile M. Cioran (1911-) |
| Håbet er en god morgenmad, men en dårlig aftensmad | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Den, der aldrig har håbet, kan aldrig fortvivle | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Håbet er den svages viljestyrke. | Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) |
| Håbet er den karosse, hvori vi køres til graven. | Herman Bang |
| Hvis først håbet slukkes, hvad er der så tilbage? | Joachim Aagaard |
| Håbet er et af disse lægemidler, som ikke kurerer, men tillader os at lide længere. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Ting, som du ikke håber, sker oftere end ting, som du håber. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| I alle tårer glimter et sidste håb. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| Hverken frygt eller håb griber et døende dyr; mennesket venter på døden fuld af frygt og håb. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Håb er ofte en jagthund uden spor. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. | Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) |
| Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. | Alexander Pope (1688-1744) |
| In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. | Alexander the Great (356 f.Kr.-323 f.Kr.) |
| Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. | Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) |
| Hope is a waking dream. | Aristotle |
| There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. | Benedict de Spinoza |
| He that lives upon hope will die fasting. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. | Bern Williams |
| A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Hope and fear are inseparable. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity | Herman Melville (1819-1891) |
| Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| To the sick, while there is life there is hope. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| While the sick man has life there is hope. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death. | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) |
| Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. | Pliny the Elder |
| He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything | Ordspråk från Arabländerna |
| Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell. | Proverbs, Denmark |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts tha shadow of our burden behind us | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| You cannot live on hope alone, nor can you live without it | Unknown |
| The miserable have no other medicine But only hope | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness | Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) |
| Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom. | Alfred Victor Vigny (1797-1863) |
| A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. | Anna Mary Robertson Moses |
| 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. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. | Anwar Sadat (1918-1981) |
| The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| We hope Dracula can bring new blood to the hobby of stamp collecting. | Barry Ziehl |
| Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life | Book of Common Prayer |
| There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. | Brooke Medicine Eagle |
| When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. | Charles L. Allen |
| Hope is the parent of faith. | Cyrus A. Bartol |
| Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises | De Casseres |
| Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life | Emil Brunner |
| Hope is the poor man's bread. | Gary Herbert |
| Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. | George Iles |
| Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way. | George Savile (1633-) |
| Hope never abandons you; you abandon it | George Weinberg |
| We must always have old memories and young hopes | Houssaye |
| I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us | Howard Mumford Jones |
| Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one. | Ian Philpot |
| The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. | Irving R. Kaufman |
| Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. | Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979-) |
| Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death | John Newton (1725-1807) |
| Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will. | Josh Hartnett (1978-) |
| When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead | Judith Viorst (1931-) |
| Hope is the denial of reality. | Margaret Weis |
| I was thinking around the clouds, and I was hoping you wouldn't bring me down. And I was wandering if you would come with me. But then I realized that you're dirty. | Nate Ramer |
| 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 (1912-1990) |
| There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow | Orison Sweet Marden |
| We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it. | Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
| To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing | Raymond Williams |
| Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life. | Shania Twain (1965-) |
| Hope is a talent like any other | Storm Jameson (1891-) |
| Where there's life, there's hope. | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| Hope is patience with the lamp lit. | Tertullian (155-220) |
| Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation | Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) |
| Hope is a very thin diet | Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) |
| Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) |
| Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. | William Sloan Coffin |
| I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different | Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) |
| Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... | Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894) |
| I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| What one hopes for is always better than what one has | Ethiopian Proverb |
| A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey | Greek proverb |
| 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 (1048-1131) |
| My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. | Publius Ovidius Naso (43 f.Kr.-17 f.Kr.) |
| Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. | Afghan Proverb |
| In valor there is hope. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. | Robert Southey (1774-1843) |
| Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. | Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) |
| Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. | Josh Hartnett (1978-) |
| Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will. | Josh Hartnett (1978-) |
| Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that? | George Weinberg |
| Hope never abandons you; you abandon it | George Weinberg |
| When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. | Charles L. Allen |
| Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| Where there's life, there's hope. | Terence (195 f.Kr.-159 f.Kr.) |
| Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. | George Iles |
| Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. | William Sloan Coffin |
| Since I gave up hope I feel much better | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try. | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| 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. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| The question was put to Aristotle, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man." | Diogenes |
| "When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals." | Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) |
| When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. | Anne Lamott (1954-) |
| Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. | Antonio Porchia (1886-1968) |
| Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. | Augustine of Hippo |
| Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent. | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas. | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. | Barbara Kingsolver (1955-) |
| Hope of gain lessens pain. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible, and then working for it. | Bernie Siegel |
| Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12). | Bible |
| But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Romans 8:25). | Bible |
| We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance brings God's approval, and His approval brings hope (Romans 3:4-5). | Bible |
| Hope deferred maketh the heart sick | Bible |
| Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying | Bible |
| Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12). | Bible |
| False hope really makes you cynical | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. | Charles L. Allen |
| Hope is the best part of our riches. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Where we’re standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| We couldn't all be cowboys, some of us are clowns. Some of us are dancers on the midway, we roam from town to town. I hope that everybody can find a little flame. Me, I say my prayers and just light myself on fire and walk out on the wire again. | Counting Crows |
| Hope is the parent of faith. | Cyrus A. Bartol |
| John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you | Don McLean (1945-) |
| I may not seem quite right,But i'm not f**ked, not quite. | Elliott Smith (1969-2003) |
| To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Hope is the dream of a soul awake. | French Proverb |
| Have hope. Though clouds environs now,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from my brow --No night but hath its morn. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope. | Gerald Vann |
| Some of these fine days I swear I'll throw away all my heavy luggage in the shape of hopes, and expectations, and walk the rest of the way with free limbs. | Geraldine Jewsbury |
| Hope is a very unruly emotion | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| "I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers." | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity | Herman Melville (1819-1891) |
| Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| I‘m sure now that grieving and healing are the same thing sometimes, and magic and death are the same thing sometimes, and trusting and failing are the same thing sometimes. | Jorja Fox (1968-) |
| We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| Hope sustains the farmer | Latin Proverb |
| Dum spiro, spero (Latin), "While I breath, I hope" | Latin Proverb |
| Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| I hope your mind's not as empty as that desk | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope... | Meredith Grey |
| In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. | Michael Jackson (1958-) |
| Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent | Mignon McLaughlin (1915-) |
| So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes. | Mika Waltari (1908-) |
| The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| 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 (1912-1990) |
| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. | Oprah Winfrey (1954-) |
| No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. | Orison Swett Marden |
| What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Expect nothing, but know that great things lie ahead for you | Paul Wilson |
| Those who wish to sing always find a song. | Proverb |
| The sun will shine into our yard too | Proverb |
| Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. | Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) |
| Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The triumph of hope over experience | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| In all pleasure hope is a considerable part | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. | Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
| Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| The pure, the beautiful, the bright,That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer,The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost,The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes —These things can never die. | Sarah Doudney |
| That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies | Shawshank Redemption |
| You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. | Shrii Shrii Anandamurti |
| Hope costs nothing | Sidonie Gabrielle |
| Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies | Stephen King (1947-) |
| One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. | Steven Deitz |
| Hope is a talent like any other | Storm Jameson (1891-) |
| Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still | Thales of Miletus |
| Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will, at a favorable moment, call (up the law for religious freedom) and make it the keystone of the arch of our government | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Hope is a very thin diet | Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) |
| Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. | Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) |
| True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| People live for the dream in their hearts. And I have yet to know anyone who has not some secret dream, some hope, however dim, some storied wall to look at in the dusk, some painted window leading to the soul. | Zane Grey (1872-1939) |
| Å håpe vil si å dementere fremtiden. | Emile M. Cioran (1911-) |
| Bak bekymringene skimtes håpets redning. | Einaari Vuorela (1889-1972) |
| Det er håp i hengende snøre. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Elendige har ingen annen legedom enn håpet. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Et glimt av sol bak tåken å bevare, det er det livsens krav en mann skal klare. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Håp er et legemiddel som ikke helbreder, men som tillater oss å lide litt lenger. | Marcel Achard (1899-1974) |
| Håp, planer og illusjoner er livets foryngelseselementer. De er morgenrøden, hvis glans stadig fortryller. | Martin Kessel |
| Håpet er den sykelige tro på at det umulige vil skje. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Håpet er en dyktig forfalsker av sannheten. La klokheten tøyle det slik at gleden over det vi virkelig har blir sterkere enn ønsker. | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| Håpet er en nøysom plante, det skyter nye skudd i det dunkle for hver gang det blir ribbet. Utrydde håp er en lang historie, kanskje umulig. Det lever av ingenting som det gule lavet på steinen, det lever på tross av alt. | Cora Sandel |
| Hvis jeg lar det være en grønn gren i mitt hjerte, vil sangfuglen komme. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Løft ditt hode, du raske gutt! Om et håp eller to ble brutt, blinker et nytt i ditt øye, straks det får glans av det høye! | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| På håpets enger gresser mange narrer. | Russisk Ordtak |
| Så lenge mennesket har håp, er intet forferdelig. | Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976) |
| Vona er sterk, men sterkare er den som ikkje treng henne. | Olav Duun (1876-1939) |