Hope Quote by Richard Russo

“After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists…

— John Connolly

“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that…

— Alfred Hayes

“In some ways, he was just like the rest of us: lonely, ambitious, a son, a father, a lover, never truly content. Where he…

— David A. Goodman

“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

He that place his hopes on a man is ripe for disappointment

— Ore Abayomi

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“He expected nothing more from life. Not because he was disappointed or embittered. He expected nothing because there was nothing of importance that he…

— jan-philipp sendker

“It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires.”

— Leo Tolstoy