Samuel Johnson Quotes About Hope
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
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The triumph of hope over experience.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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