George Eliot

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

- George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

Rachael Lampa

"It's dark so you can see the light,
It's hard so you can know it's right, 
Rain, nothing ever grows without you.
And hurt is just a chance to heal,
And tears are just a call to feel,
Pain, beauty's just a word without you."

- Rachael Lampa, 'Beauty's Just A Word'

Noah and the Whale

"What you don't have now will come back again"

- Noah and the Whale, 'L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.'

Ingrid Michaelson

"Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come in again
Swing open your chest and let it in."

- Ingrid Michaelson, 'Everybody'

Two Door Cinema Club

"Something good can work and it can work for you."

- Two Door Cinema Club, 'Something Good Can Work'

Alexander Pope

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Man never Is, but always To be blest
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

- 'An Essay On Man' by Alexander Pope

Coldplay

"Lights will guide you home and ingnite your bones."

- Coldplay, 'Fix You'

The Beatles

“And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me”

- The Beatles, 'Let It Be'

Alfred Tennyson

"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier."

- Alfred Tennyson, poet

Marlo Thomas

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning."

- Marlo Thomas, actor and social activist

Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller, author and activist

Aristotle

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

- Aristotle, philosopher

Albert Camus

"He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool."

- Albert Camus, "The Rebel", author, philosopher, journalist

Aeschylus

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

- Aeschylus, ancient Greek playwright

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -"

- 'Hope is the thing with feathers...' by Emily Dickinson

Henry David Thoreau

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."

- Henry David Thoreau, author, poet, development critic

Will Durant

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher

Robert G. Ingersall

"Hope is the only universal liar which never loses its reputation for veracity."

- Robert G. Ingersall, veteran, politician and orator

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, scholar, philosopher and developmental critic

Pearl S. Buck

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

- Pearl S. Buck, author and missionary