Ambrose Bierce Quotes about Hope

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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Pride, Envy

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Disappointment, Eternity

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.169, 谷月社

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Expectations, Hopeful

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Country, Littles

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce

Funny, Hope, Giving Up

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Philosophy, Pessimism

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Fashion, Book

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.229, 谷月社