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• While there's life, there's hope
  While there's life, there's hope

  Never give up. (Compare It's never over till it's over.)
• while there's life there's hope
  while there's life there's hope

  Also, where there's life there's hope. So long as someone or something ailing is alive, there is hope for recovery. For example, The company has survived previous recessions; while there's life there's hope. A statement made about dying individuals since ancient times, it was cited in numerous proverb collections from 1539 on. Today it is also applied to inanimate matters.

While there's life, there's hope

Cultural  

1. Never give up. (Compare It's never over till it's over.)

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while there's life there's hope Idioms  

1. Also, where there's life there's hope. So long as someone or something ailing is alive, there is hope for recovery. For example, The company has survived previous recessions; while there's life there's hope. A statement made about dying individuals since ancient times, it was cited in numerous proverb collections from 1539 on. Today it is also applied to inanimate matters.

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Example Sentences

What doctors always say, Miss Louise, that while there’s life there’s hope.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville

Things look very black; but while there's life there's hope.

From What's Bred in the Bone by Allen, Grant

You know that while there's life there's hope.

From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

We're not dead yet and while there's life there's hope.

From The Boy Allies at Verdun Or, Saving France from the Enemy by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)

But while there's life, there's hope," said Mrs. Martin, "and I'll go back with you if you'll harness up.

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne