To hope is to contradict the future.

Don’t hope.
Hope is wanting things to be different than they are.
Wanting to change yourself is self-loathing.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

I don’t see what alternate reality was possible other than the one’s we lived through. So I think people are really wistfully hoping for something that was never going to be.

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Optimism is never faith in progress, but hope for a miracle.

Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.

It is to hope, tho' hope were lost.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Don’t hope. Hope is for people who aren’t prepared.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.