Nothing is harder on the nerves than hope.
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.
And thou shalt be secure because there is hope.
Hope is the last thing ever lost.
Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.