Vain Hope Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need… — Ben Affleck
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. — Thomas Carlyle
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like… — Saadi
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all… — Charles Dickens
I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile… — John Green
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the… — Barbara Pym
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is… — Maeve Binchy
My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop of corn is… — Chidiock Tichborne

Who Wrote These Vain Hope Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Vain Hope Quotes as follows: