Top Vain Hopes Quotes

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

H. Rider Haggard

Tags: disagreement, dreams, faith, future, hopes, ignorance, illusions, imagination, mankind, religion

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation...

Anne Bronte

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation...

Anne Bronte

Tags: judgment, solitude, vain hopes