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Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Drama (film)2 quotes
Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Historical literature2 quotes
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle · 240Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up. — Studs Terkel · 2003Prison drama2 quotes
Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Prison drama (film)2 quotes
Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. — Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding · 1994Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. — Andy Dufresne · 1994Comedy (play)1 quote
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most shifts. — William Shakespeare · 1616Documentary1 quote
I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. — Harvey Milk · 1984Epic poem1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321History (play)1 quote
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. — William Shakespeare · 1597Modernist literature1 quote
I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. — James Joyce · 1915Narrative poem1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Philosophical literature1 quote
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. — Baruch Spinoza · 1677Political literature1 quote
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope. — Hannah Arendt · 1951Religious literature1 quote
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321