Depression Quote by Jane Austen

“We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and…

— Shalom Auslander

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

— John Milton

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet…

— Samuel Johnson

Optimism can sometimes give you hope to fight direst of the circumstances.

— 5h45hvut

“It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and…

— alain de botton

You know what they say about hope. It breeds enternal misery.

— From Pretty Little Liars

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done…

— Tony Robbins

“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the…

— Ronald Knox

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

— Rohinton Mistry

When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same…

— Vermin Supreme