"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Hope More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." "Few people have the imagination for reality." "Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age." More In Hope "Hope is patience with the lamp lit."― Tertullian "When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."― Quintilian "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."― Lionel Trilling