See Also: DREAMS

1. As renewed as a baby born to middle life —Richard Ford
2. As spring flowers are promised by seed-sellers in their new catalogues, you too were once full of promise —Charles Simic
3. Carry hope like a tallow candle —Marge Piercy
4. Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay —Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Every wish is like a prayer with God —Elizabeth Barrett
6. Full of inexpressible expectations, like a child running downstairs on Christmas morning, not knowing what wonderful things may be in the stocking —Harvey Swados
7. Had his hopes jerked back and forth like Pinocchio —dialogue from “Hill Street Blues,” television drama, broadcast 1987
8. Hope dawned in the distance like a sail —Marguerite Yourcenar
9. Hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone —William Wadsworth Longfellow
10. (Nothing in the world is as) hopeful as knowing a woman you like is somewhere thinking about only you —Richard Ford
11. Hopeful, like extras at an audition —Lawrence Durrell
12. Hope has as many lifes as a cat or a king —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
13. Hope is a kind of cheat: in the minute of our disappointment we are angry; but upon the whole matter there is no pleasure without it —Lord Halifax
14. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us —Samuel Smiles
15. Hope is nearly as strong as despair, and greatly more pertinacious and enduring —Walter Savage Landor
16. Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer; it keeps him from sinking … but yet many times it makes him venture beyond his height —Owen Feltham
17. Hope … it’s like a fire in the wind; the slightest breeze will diminish it, but if I feed it the wind will make it blaze —Richard Maynard
18. Hope’s as cheap as despair —H. G. Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs
19. Hopes like a child —Randall Jarrell
20. Hope springing like a Jack-in-the-box —Alice McDermott
21. It was as though a great eraser had swept across Stern’s mind, and he was ready to start fresh again —Bruce Jay Friedman
22. Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines —Edward Young
23. Living on hope is like living on an 800 calorie-a-day diet —Anon

    This may have its origins in a Scottish proverb: “He who lives on hope lives on a very lean diet.”

24. Look at hopefully, like a bird with its beak open waiting for a nice juicy worm —Sara Woods

    See Also: LOOKS

25. Plucked my spirits up like a hitchhiker who catches a ride when all hope was lost —Richard Ford
26. Through the sunset of hope like the shapes of a dream, what paradise islands of glory gleam —Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. Wishes, like painted landscape … afar off they appear beautiful; but near they show their coarse and ordinary colors —Thomas Yalden