Meaning of prisoner of hope | Babel Free

Definitions

One who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.

Examples

“Born so brightly colored, and fading duller through all those long, grim, dreary, nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope⟳, and kept captives by greed.”

“Optimism is a notion that there's sufficient evidence that would allow⟳ us to infer that if we keep⟳ doing what we're doing, things will get⟳ better. I don't believe⟳ that. I'm a prisoner of hope⟳, that's something else. Cutting against the grain, against the evidence'.”

“And every genuine educator is a prisoner of hope⟳. The road to all liberation through self-knowing is a path of despair, but all roads have⟳ their empty horizons and infinite beyonds.”

“A prisoner of hope⟳ is an entrepreneur unknowingly trapped in a deceptive world where reality is masked by that person's desire to succeed⟳. Such entrepreneurs are optimistic, convinced that what they want⟳ to happen⟳ will happen⟳, yet it will never happen⟳ because they are not doing, only hoping.”

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