John Fowles Quotes


Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver Hope 1,015
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Hope 702
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. William Shakespeare Hope 216
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. Martin Luther Hope 206
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell Hope 202
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. John Milton Hope 164
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. J.R.R. Tolkien Hope 150
May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace. Anonymous Hope 144
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace and death a duty. Voltaire Hope 136
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert G. Ingersoll Hope 130
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. James Grant Hope 127
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hope 125
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hope 115
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. Epictetus Hope 112
Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller Hope 110
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Hope 108
Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle Hope 108
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. Ovid Hope 106
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon Hope 101
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schulz Hope 101
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it. Margaret Weis Hope 100
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. Thomas Carlyle Hope 100
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. Kalu Ndukwe Kalu Hope 100
Hope and fear are inseparable. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope 98
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles Hope 98
Our hopes are but memories reversed. Source Unknown Hope 97
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Oscar Wilde Hope 95
Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.Hope 94
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Herman Melville Hope 94
Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. Charles Sawyer Hope 93
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold Hope 93
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. Jim Henson Hope 91
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. Richard Russo Hope 91
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Hope 91
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin Hope 90
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama Hope 89
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus Hope 88
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright Hope 86
Times of general calamity and confusion have never been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. Charles Caleb Colton Hope 86
Hope is worth any money. Thomas Fuller Hope 84
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus Hope 84
Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. Source Unknown Hope 83
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver Hope 83
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. Marcus Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Elder)Hope 83
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. Martin Luther Hope 82
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Percy Bysshe Shelley Hope 82
Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. Ruckett Hope 81
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot Hope 81
I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered. Martina Navratilova Hope 81
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin Hope 81

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