Top 100 Lost And Hope Quotes
#1. Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.
Pauline Marois
#2. As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
Elvis Costello
#3. I feel like ...
the boy lost somewhere
between the torment of memory
and a few fragile shards
of hope.
Margarita Engle
#4. The open door smiling proudly with both of their sons. It was called love. The hardest thing in the world to find and keep, but the one thing that made the worst imaginable hell tolerable. More than hope, it was truly the light that guided the lost to
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.
Nikki Rowe
#6. If we would take the traits that characterized the Pilgrims and make them our own, we could regain hope. We could recover the spiritual and moral strength that we have lost. We could offer a thrilling challenge to our young people.
Billy Graham
#7. The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.
James E. Faust
#8. He raised his hand to brush a stray hair from her face. Instead of dropping his hand, he slid it behind her neck and drew her closer. His earthy pine scent enveloped her. When his lips touched hers, she lost any hope of control.
Lia Davis
#9. I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight.
B.A. Paris
#10. But, when he saw that glint of happiness in his father's eyes in the middle of his sentence, he decided that he wanted it to stay that way.
Diyar Harraz
#11. Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
Jason E. Hodges
#12. Don't judge the gentle; their gentleness is stronger than your fears and angers. Don't judge those who have lost their gentleness; you haven't lived their lives. In all people, hope for the gentleness to return and see gentleness for the beauty that it is.
C. JoyBell C.
#13. Hope - meaning when everything goes wrong and you are all but lost. Hope brings you back up on your feet and gives you the strength to charge forward.
Melina Turner
#14. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.
[Johnny Truant]
Mark Z. Danielewski
#15. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.
Criss Jami
#16. Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
Lemony Snicket
#17. Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
#18. Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope ~Henri - I am number four
Pittacus Lore
#19. Hope is born in the dark. Like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, hope will bring you through every personal storm. It is our encouragement and guide to safety. Hope is found in the arms of God.
Cheryl Zelenka
#20. We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,
We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,
And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.
God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
from Gentleman Rankers
Rudyard Kipling
#22. I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free.
Jessica Gadziala
#23. Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
Angela Merkel
#24. A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
Rachel Simon
#25. All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wanderer.
Beryl Markham
#26. To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.
Stewart O'Nan
#27. You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
Yann Martel
#28. I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already ... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
Otto Frank
#29. Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness - it's still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you.
Dean Koontz
#30. I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.
Colleen Hoover
#31. Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.
Italo Calvino
#32. Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal.
Margarita Engle
#33. This book attempts to
record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#34. I will forgive,
but I wont forget,
and I hope you know,
you've lost my respect
Papa Roach
#35. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
#36. To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.
Pope John Paul II
#37. Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.
Dante Alighieri
#38. I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we'd lost. And James for the hope he still carried.
Jodi Meadows
#39. By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt!
Bram Stoker
#40. Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.
Lysa TerKeurst
#41. I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.
Sonya Walger
#42. If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you.
Donna Lynn Hope
#43. I tell myself: This time could be different. I rationalize: It's not like the past can be changed. I fear: I lost everything before. And yet... I hope.
Heather Lyons
#44. The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.
David Richo
#45. But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.
Susanna Clarke
#46. There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
#47. Go for your dreams and get lost to find yourself again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#48. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.
Yasmine El Rashidi
#49. So I leave hoping that it was merely a game that I have lost and not a lifetime.
Dimitri Zaik
#50. I did what I had to do in that moment, and I'm proud of myself for it. I was hurting, yes, and maybe I overreacted, and but I can still feel, so there's hope for me. The one's who've forgotten how to feel, those are the ones who are lost.
C.M. Stunich
#51. Let us hope that some natural paradises on Earth remain totally lost and not to be found till men fully grasp the endless value of the beauty!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
Amy Tan
#53. When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading through my own books, and have been unable to find any paradox. In fact, that thing is quite tragic, and some day I shall hope to write an epic called 'Paradox Lost'.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me
and I think for all of us
not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
Thomas Wolfe
#56. Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.
George W. Bush
#57. He spared a moment to hope that Edmund Herondale would find comfort in the arms of his beautiful mundane love, that he would live a life that made all he had lost and all he had suffered seem worthwhile.
Cassandra Clare
#58. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
Theodore Kaczynski
#59. You're lost, broken, and completely fucked up. You're not like me, but you want to be. The difference between us is that I still have hope and you lost yours a long time ago.
H.M. Ward
#60. This is a book about lost faith and blaming God when He allows bad things to happen to good people. But, it is also about the wounds we carry around with us when we fail to make a diiference when a difference was needed, whether real or perceived. But there is hope for us all! We are NOT alone!
Norman Whaler
#61. I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
Farrah Fawcett
#63. The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#65. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
Joseph Conrad
#66. When all hope seems lost and your life's in disarray, just call on your Angel, who will light your way!
Raphaelle Peale
#67. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore
#68. Our deep longings remind us we have lost something vital and precious. Such yearnings are the stirring of hope. Of returning." "Returning where?" "To this garden.
William Paul Young
#69. He describes poignantly the prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die.
Viktor E. Frankl
#70. What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.
Slavomir Rawicz
#71. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.
Julian Barnes
#72. Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc - where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
Amanda Ripley
#73. We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
Francis Bacon
#74. Somewhere in that hour I lost all relation to a middle ground, and I didn't regain it for what became a very long time. In
Hope Edelman
#75. Have you lost your hope? Have you remained inside the fog? Don't worry; even if you can't find it, a new hope will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.
Ryu Murakami
#77. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamienska
#78. The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
She always gives and shares.
When you get lost she becomes the light,
Helps you to find what is right.
But she never forgets
To show you the light.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
Anne Lamott
#80. So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World shall know. Thus
John Milton
#81. Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
Louis L'Amour
#82. Save the world? I don't think so. I have my reasons. The world was lost a long time ago, and nothing's going to fix it, maybe not even science.
Austin Grossman
#83. I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.
Louie Giglio
#84. Such a beginning presaged nothing good. However, I lost neither courage nor hope. I turned to the consolation of all those in distress, and for the first time tasted the sweetness of prayer, poured forth from a pure but riven heart. I fell asleep serenely, unworried as to what was to become of me.
Alexander Pushkin
#85. It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#86. The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda.
Jonathan Coe
#87. And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war, you wouldn't be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
Bob Hope
#88. But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.
Angie Smith
#89. Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all.
John Milton
#90. Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
Alice Hoffman
#91. I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.
Kinoko Nasu
#92. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
Roberto Bolano
#93. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.
John Searles
#94. An author's job isn't to just write books, but to give hope and inspiration to the lost.
Rowan K. Lake Jr.
#95. I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#96. She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.
Patrick Carman
#97. I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example
Muhammad Ali
#98. Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.
Dean Koontz
#99. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. It gave him hope - hope that he had not lost his soul in the act of killing, hope that humanity could still be found, and honor could be regained ...
Sarah J. Maas
