„The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.“

„Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope…the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.“

—  Clifford D. Simak, книга Time and Again

Источник: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XXXV (p. 183)

„All the roads are dark. Only at the end is there a hope of light.“

—  Guy Gavriel Kay, книга The Darkest Road

Источник: The Darkest Road

„Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.“

—  Thales ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician -624 - -547 до н.э.

A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 234

„Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.“

—  Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

In conversation with Max Brod (1920), after Brod had queried on there being "hope outside this manifestation of the world that we know", as quoted in Franz Kafka: A Biography [Franz Kafka, eine Biographie] (1937) by Max Brod, as translated by G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston (1947; 1960); at least as early as Franz Kafka : Parable and Paradox (1962) by Heinz Politzer, this assertion has often appeared paraphrased as: "There is hope, but not for us", and sometimes "There is hope — only not for us."
Variant translations:
Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope — but not for us.
As translated in Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity (1988) by Dagmar Barnouw, p. 187

„It is only for those without hope that hope is given.“

—  Walter Benjamin German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940) 1892 - 1940

„Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.“

—  Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, книга Pharsalia

Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Добавить примечание: (la) Sit caeca futuri
mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

„A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.“

—  Pierre Stephen Robert Payne British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911 - 1983

The Corruptions of Society, p. 9 (See also: The American Dream..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

„It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

Вариант: It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had.
Источник: City of Lost Souls

„Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.“

—  Abraham Cowley British writer 1618 - 1667

The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.“

—  Julio Cortázar, книга Hopscotch

Источник: Hopscotch

„It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.“

—  Yoshida Shoin Japanese politician 1830 - 1859

Vol. VI.

„I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.“

—  Orson Scott Card, книга Ender's Game

Источник: Ender's Game

„I say, let them dread, of all things, stagnation; for from the moment I, Lilith, lose hope and faith in them, they are doomed. In that hope and faith I have let them live for a moment; and in that moment I have spared them many times.“

—  George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

Lilith, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Контексте: I say, let them dread, of all things, stagnation; for from the moment I, Lilith, lose hope and faith in them, they are doomed. In that hope and faith I have let them live for a moment; and in that moment I have spared them many times. But mightier creatures than they have killed hope and faith, and perished from the earth; and I may not spare them for ever. I am Lilith: I brought life into the whirlpool of force, and compelled my enemy, Matter, to obey a living soul. But in enslaving Life's enemy I made him Life's master; for that is the end of all slavery; and now I shall see the slave set free and the enemy reconciled, the whirlpool become all life and no matter. And because these infants that call themselves ancients are reaching out towards that, I will have patience with them still; though I know well that when they attain it they shall become one with me and supersede me, and Lilith will be only a legend and a lay that has lost its meaning. Of Life only is there no end; and though of its million starry mansions many are empty and many still unbuilt, and though its vast domain is as yet unbearably desert, my seed shall one day fill it and master its matter to its uttermost confines. And for what may be beyond, the eyesight of Lilith is too short. It is enough that there is a beyond.

„Hope that is the only antidote to fear.“

—  Lance Armstrong, книга It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Источник: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

„That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.“

—  Charles Bukowski, книга Factotum

Источник: Factotum (1975), Ch. 29
Контексте: That was all a man needed: hope. It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man. I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

„Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.“

—  Vladimir Nabokov, книга Lolita

Вариант: A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
Источник: Lolita

„To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.“

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Источник: The Hunger Games

„Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.“

—  Mick Jagger British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943

„Despair exists only when there is hope.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

11th Public Talk, London, UK (25 May 1961)
1960s