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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Hope

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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Hope, Endeavor, No Hope

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 375-78, The Rambler No. 110, 1922.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Hope, Courage

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Happiness, Uplifting, Hope

Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.8

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Hope, Pain, Excess

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Hope, Frustration, Extinction

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.322

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Hope, Anticipation, Conditions

The Rambler No. 67

The triumph of hope over experience.

Marriage, Funny Love, Hope

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Hope, Cheating, Thinking

Referring to 'Ossian' in a letter to James Macpherson, 20 January 1775: James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 298

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Inspirational, Hope, Hopeful

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.36

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Hope, Schemes, Merriment

'The Idler' no. 58 (26 May 1759)

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Hope, Vanity, Expectations

'The Rambler' no. 106 (23 March 1751)

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Hope, Comfort, Captivity

The Rambler No. 67

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

Hope, Mind, Amusement

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.61

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

Death, Hope, Sunshine

Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.299, Princeton University Press

When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

Life, Hope, Humble

"The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D".

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