Hope dies last.
Proverbs have no individual author. They passed orally through generations and were only written down from the nineteenth century onward, when collectors of folk literature began systematically recording what until then had been carried in memory. The sayings gathered here come from Croatian oral tradition and often exist in several variants depending on the region.
About this theme: Hope
Hope has an odd standing among the virtues: it was not always counted as one. In the Greek myth of Pandora it remains at the bottom of the jar after every affliction has escaped, and interpreters have argued for millennia over whether it is there as consolation or as the last evil. Nietzsche took the second view — hope, he claimed, prolongs the torment.
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- Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.— Helen Keller
- While I breathe, I hope.— Latin Proverb
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.— Helen Keller