“A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?” 
― Joyce Carol Oates

“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.” 
― Angel Wagenstein

“A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.” 
― Anosh Irani

“hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actually surprise you in the best of ways.” 
― Amy Lane

“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.” 
― Anita Krishan

“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.” 
― James E. Lovelock

“Never Give up! Where there's life there's hope!...” 
― Will Brenner

“Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?” 
― Libba Bray