„Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you’ll sink in your little blue boat -It’s hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat“

— Margaret Atwood

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„Dead my old fine hopesAnd dry my dreaming but still…Iris, blue each spring“
— Bashō Matsuo
„Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave,But carries no cry of what is hoped to be.There may be little or much beyond the grave,But the strong are saying nothing until they see.“
— Robert Frost
„The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.“
— Stephen King
„Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.“
— Franz Kafka
„Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit“
— Cassandra Clare
„You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.“
— John Lennon