“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
More from J.R.R. Tolkien on Hope
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
“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“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
Albert Camus
4 quotes“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
Leonard Cohen
4 quotes“There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
John Green
3 quotes“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
Neal Shusterman
3 quotes“Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”
Václav Havel
3 quotes“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless o...”
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.”
Amy Tan
3 quotes“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
Thomas Hardy
3 quotes“Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Thornton Wilder
3 quotes“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.”
Martin Luther
3 quotes“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
Einstein
2 quotes“The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.”