Top 100 Quotes About False Hope: Famous Quotes & Sayings About False Hope

#1. Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.

#2. I followed Barry closely as we walked through the main doors of the hospital, down the corridor that smelt like disinfectant and false hope.

Belinda Jeffrey

#3. False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.

James Dashner

#4. Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it's March that's the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.

Stephen King

#5. False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.

Charlie Rae

#6. There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Sue Miller

#7. Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police.

Stephen King

#8. nothing is worse than the false hope someone gives you in your depression

Kim Walters

#9. Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

Stephen Grosz

#10. Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.

Paul Tremblay

#11. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

S.A. Tawks

#12. She hadn't told Klaus about her plan, because she didn't want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of her room.

Lemony Snicket

#13. There's no kindness in offering false hope.

Naomi Novik

#14. If war is the health of the state, despair is the health of religion. Until African workers and peasants find belief systems that provides them with real hope of happiness in the here and now, they will continue to grasp at religion's false hope of happiness in the hereafter.

Anonymous

#15. The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

James Alan Gardner

#16. And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

Patti Davis

#17. False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Rob Payne

#18. At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie.

Robin Sloan

#19. What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

Tess Gerritsen

#20. False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Edgar Allan Poe

#21. False hope is better than believing you're the world's biggest loser.

Duncan Ralston

#22. A false hope gives only false comfort.

Gene Brewer

#23. False hope really makes you cynical.

Bill Maher

#24. Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!

Anton Szandor LaVey

#25. False hope is worse than despair.

Jonathan Kozol

#26. Go to your happy place. Go to the house, the one with the red door and the white picket fence. Go back to where nighttime meant kisses and hugs, bedtime stories and cuddles with Buster. Go to where sunrises were promises instead of just false hope. Go to where love still lives.

J.M. Darhower

#27. I will defeat sorrow[]I will stand my ground and be strong. I don't know when it will be but someday, I will conquer it. And I will do it without false hope.

Yuna

#28. It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth

Unknown

#29. Far better that false hope should lull you,
Than that sheer blackness yawn at you

Ivan Klima

#30. Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#31. Love is an ideal. A false hope. Marriage is the reality. And like all realities it is painful.

Anonymous

#32. It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#33. Evermore the Law must prepare the way for the gospel. To overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the Church with false converts ... Time will make this plain.

Charles Grandison Finney

#34. Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Julian Fellowes

#35. You're giving them false hope ... What is false about hope?

Mitch Albom

#36. There is no such thing as "false hope." Hope is not in itself a guarantee of good outcome or a cure. Hope is merely cognizing a situation as something other than hopelessness.

Richard J. Castillo

#37. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Thomas A. Edison

#38. To a man standing on the eve of battle, even false hope is better than none.

C.L. Wilson

#39. False hope has more potential of hurting you than not having any hope at all.

Nina Levine

#40. Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

Tariq Ramadan

#41. False hope is better than no hope at all.

Lois Greiman

#42. No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

Sheri S. Tepper

#43. He see's the world the way cynics do; Not looking for false Hope.

Meredith Duran

#44. Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

Laini Taylor

#45. You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

Lindsey O'Connor

#46. False hope is a dangerous tool to employ

E.J. Swift

#47. The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.

Tim Scott

#48. Easy hope was usually false hope.

Dean Koontz

#49. A part of me so desperately wanted to believe it was possible, but the other part of me knew that holding on to false hope can be a dangerous thing.

Autumn Doughton

#50. Things have their way of staying with you forever, haunting your sleep and giving you false hope.

Diyar Harraz

#51. The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

John Bradshaw

#52. What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.

Chris Priestley

#53. False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

Mike Caro

#54. The reality of my situation quickly crushes any false hope that could seep into my head and poison what I know to be certain

J. Daniels

#55. Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison, American inventor

George Washington

#56. Fascism is on the march," Lloyd began. "And it is dangerously attractive. It gives false hope to the unemployed. It wears a spurious patriotism, as the Fascists themselves wear imitation military uniforms.

Ken Follett

#57. You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner

#58. Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Trudi Canavan

#59. False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Jerome Groopman

#60. No need for false hope...

...

So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just nowhere....

Deyth Banger

#61. Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

Ann Hood

#62. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.

Peter S. Fogg

#63. As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff
Believe a woman or an epitaph
Or any other thing that's false
Before you trust in critics.

George Gordon Byron

#64. We all suffer from dreams.

Bernard Cornwell

#65. I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false

Peter Joseph

#66. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.

Jennifer DeLucy

#67. People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

Subhash Kak

#68. War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Richard Flanagan

#69. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.

Debasish Mridha

#70. When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public a false sense that someone is looking after their health interest and some cases even managing their health.

Ravida Din

#71. There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

P.G. Wodehouse

#72. Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Alexander Hamilton

#73. Sadness is not out there. It's inside you. Sadness is often a misperception and false interpretation of a situation.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#75. In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.

Louis Kronenberger

#76. Because sometimes people who seem good
end up being not as good as you might have hoped.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. And that day the cultural god of science had shone a bit less brightly, had died a little in the people's minds.

Clifford D. Simak

#78. In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

#79. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?

Robert Ferrigno

#80. Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Kim Campbell

#82. Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#83. A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them.

Frank Herbert

#84. No is a false perception.
Yes is a positive conception.
Go with reality and reason.

Debasish Mridha

#85. There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered.

Abhijit Naskar

#86. That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core.

Charlotte Bronte

#87. How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.

Delmore Schwartz

#88. When you see things through your heart, there is no right or wrong, true or false, only there is love to share.

Debasish Mridha

#89. Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

Debasish Mridha

#90. Hope was nothing but a vindictive bastard that took up residence inside and gave a false promise of something outside of your control.

Aleatha Romig

#91. The Modern-day so call "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" of Liberia does not have a "Political" ideology that they are willing to to die for; if you are not disposed to "DIE" for an ideology that will live than rallying people up is an act and hope of false promises.

Henry Johnson Jr

#92. Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.

Reginald Heber

#93. Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope

Jennifer Chiaverini

#94. I think it's very human, the hope that an all-encompassing love will change us into someone else, someone better. That this hope usually turns out to be false makes it no less human; the world is full of hopes far more unlikely than being transformed by love.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#95. Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

Og Mandino