„But has the last word been said? Must hope disappear? Is defeat final? No!“

— Charles de Gaulle

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„Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.“
— Henry Rollins
„Yiddish has not yet said its last word. It contains treasures that have not been revealed to the eyes of the world. It was the tongue of martyrs and saints, of dreamers and Cabalists — rich in humor and in memories that mankind may never forget. In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of frightened and hopeful Humanity.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
„You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'And why is that, Percy Jackson?'Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.“
— Rick Riordan
„With hope at last.“
— Cassandra Clare
„In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.“
— Barack Obama
„And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.“
— Jack Kerouac
„There is no greater drama in human record than the sight of a few Christians, scorned or oppressed by a succession of emperors, bearing all trials with a fierce tenacity, multiplying quietly, building order while their enemies generated chaos, fighting the sword with the word, brutality with hope, and at last defeating the strongest state that history has known. Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.“
— Will Durant