J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some injustice, "your white knight, he will come." One side of Callie's mouth kicked up in a wry smile. Anne had said those words countless times over the last two decades. "Forgive me, Anne, but I'm not so certain that he will." Oh, he will," Anne said firmly. "And when you least expect." I find I'm rather tired of waiting." Callie laughed half-heartedly. "Which is probably why I've turned my attentions to such a dark knight.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.