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Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. -- Kim Campbell
False hope is worse than despair. -- Jonathan Kozol
False hope really makes you cynical. -- Bill Maher
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Harsh reality is always better than false hope. -- Julian Fellowes
False hope is better than no hope at all. -- Lois Greiman
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. -- Laini Taylor
False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope. -- Mike Caro
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. -- Stephen Grosz
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. -- Trudi Canavan
False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going. -- Rob Payne
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else. -- Patti Davis
Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy. -- James Alan Gardner
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope. -- Tim Scott
False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them. -- Jerome Groopman
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness. -- Simon Cowell
I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes. -- Mitch Hedberg
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. -- Thomas A. Edison
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. -- Khaled Hosseini
What is false about hope? -- Mitch Albom
False hope is nicer than no hope at all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I seriously hope all the things i talk about are erroneous and false -- Peter Joseph
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! -- Sheri S. Tepper
I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not. -- F. S Flint
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. -- Barack Obama
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm -- Steven Morrissey
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm -- Steven Morrissey
Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars. -- Camille Paglia
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. -- Winston Churchill
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. -- Sue Miller
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair. -- Reginald Heber
Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work. -- Ann Hood
I will defeat sorrow[]I will stand my ground and be strong. I don't know when it will be but someday, I will conquer it. And I will do it without false hope. -- Yuna
The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame. -- John Bradshaw

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