“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.” 
― Robert Ludlum

“Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.” 
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in” 
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.” 
― Cora Carmack

“Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?” 
― Alfred de Vigny

“He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope."  "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking...” 
― Lloyd Alexander

“Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right: 
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.” 
― A.E. Housman

“Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.” 
― Jodi Picoult