The Best Quotes About Hope (by me)
Quotable antidotes to a woeful world.
I suspect many of you have been having a rough week or two. I certainly have. And I’ve been coping with it by absorbing as many quotes about hope as I possibly can. But after I read enough of them, I thought, “well this doesn’t seem very difficult.”
And, to quote the great Paul Newman, why go out for hamburgers (googled hope quotes) when you can have steak (your very own hope quotes) at home?
So I crafted a few. My hope(!) for these quotes is that they’ll be shared far and wide. And maybe, just maybe, we can come to an understanding that hope is truly a delicate fig, and not at all what we presume it to be. Here we go:
“Hope is not something breezy and wistful, such as a fragile creme brulee or a passing drop of creme de violette on the tongue. In fact, hope is not a creme of any kind. Hope lives far outside the creme family, as a matter of fact. Hope is a burnt marshmallow. Hope is an Austrian sausage with those off-putting gelatinous cubes inside it. Hope is always there, sustaining and lipid-rich, yet rarely appetizing. Internalize this.”
“The world is against us and its degradations are legion. But we must not lose hope.
Oh— hold up. Uh-oh. Oh, nevermind, here it is! Oh, uh, wait, nevermind again, that’s just one of those Chagall scarfs from the Met. Yes, it does seem as though I have lost hope. If you find it, feel free to reach out to my business manager. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.”
“People seem to think that hope is lovely. That she is beautiful. That she is immaculate. No. Hope has scars. Hope has smudged lipstick. Hope has a tattoo of Dane Cook under her left breast that she got removed then redone when ticket prices came down. Hope currently has a terrible case of necrotizing fasciitus from a bar-fight laceration on her scalp that threatens to gangrenize unless someone can convince her that dermatologists don’t ‘have it in for her.’”
“Hope is a gigantic Golden Retriever with a big sloppy tongue and the zoomies!!”
“Hope? *takes drag of cigarette* Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in years…”
“Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large.”1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope