It springs eternal.
DEFINITION/SUMMARY:
Kibou Japanese origin means “hope”
Famous quote: “Hope springs eternal”
- Means the feeling of hopefulness endlessly renews itself
- Hope is an everlasting feeling
Literature origin
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
EXPANDED INFO:
Hope in Japanese is read as kibou
The Japanese word kibou means “Hope, Wish, Aspiration” and is composed of the kanji (ki) meaning “hope; pray; rare” and (bou) meaning “hope; desire”
(Hope springs eternal)
Has been used in many literary works one popular example:
- 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter 43, in Our Mutual Friend: Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow.