Quotation Canapés: No. 3 – Hope

Quote #1

I dwell in possibility…

― Emily Dickinson,  Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Quote #2

Imagine for a moment that a new drug comes on the market. It’s super-addictive, and in no time everyone’s hooked. Scientists investigate and soon conclude that the drug causes, I quote, “a misperception of risk, anxiety, lower mood levels, learned helplessness, contempt and hostility towards others, and desensitization”……That drug is the news.

― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

Quote #3

It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl / Graphic adaptation

Quote #4

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 grows perhaps the greater.

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Quote #5

You have to carry the fire.
I dont know how to.
Yes you do.
Is it real? The fire?
Yes it is.
Where is it? I dont know where it is.
Yes you do. It’s inside you. It was always there. I can see it.

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

See Also

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