It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.