Cheerful Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Only hope can give rise to the emotion we call despair. But it is nearly impossible for a man to try to live without…

— Samurai Champloo

“I don't know how long we shall take to - to finish,' said Frodo. 'We were miserably delayed in the hills. But Samwise Gamgee,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

He who has never hoped can never despair

— George Bernard Shaw

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

— John Milton

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent…

— Anonymous

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

— Charles Bukowski

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

— William Maxwell

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their…

— BENTLEY LITTLE

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.

— William Shakespeare