“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
More from J.R.R. Tolkien on Hope
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“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 could be postponed.”
“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
“Dawn is ever the hope of men.”
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.”
“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
Others on Hope
Martin Luther King
7 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Leonard Cohen
4 quotes“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Albert Camus
4 quotes“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
John Green
3 quotes“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
Václav Havel
3 quotes“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless o...”
Amy Tan
3 quotes“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
Martin Luther
3 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Elie Wiesel
3 quotes“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
Thomas Hardy
3 quotes“Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”
Thornton Wilder
3 quotes“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.”
Rick Riordan
2 quotes“[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.”