Hopelessness Quotes
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Hopelessness Quotes & Sayings
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Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.
— Lara Biyuts
Wherever the hope of glory lives, hopelessness passes away.
— Nadine C. Keels
Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow.
— Paul Gitwaza
Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful
— Clive Barker
To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.
— Charlotte Bronte
The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
— Albert Schweitzer
... But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.
— John McGahern
Sergei doesn't yearn for love ... he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.
— Melika Dannese Lux
Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.
— Alessandro Pertini
The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt.
— Brene Brown
I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
— Seanan McGuire
I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
— Kohta Hirano
A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
— Cory Booker
From hopelessness within the mind rises hope itself
— Nilesh Rathod
Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.
— Daniele Bolelli
I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.
— Haruki Murakami
Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe; it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
— Richard Yates
The placid hopelessness of adulthood. The complex regret.
— David Foster Wallace
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
— Ashly Lorenzana
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.
— Susan Sontag
When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.
— Charles Dickens
Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
— James Patterson
We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.
— Vladislav Tamarov
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased ... There is no hope for the hopeless.
— Nadege Richards
When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
— Jayni Chase
And her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.
— Janette Rallison
Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.
— Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
I raced alongside the car but they were too far down the road. Brokenheartedly, I roared out in hopelessness and grief. She was gone.#Ren
— Colleen Houck
Klaus watched his sister leave the library and felt a wave of hopelessness wash over him.
— Lemony Snicket
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
— Hal Lindsey
I held hope in my hands every day. I treated hope like it was a precious stone. I clutched it so tightly that I sometimes felt bruised by it.
— Pamela Sparkman
Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.
They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.
His fairy story. — John Fowles
They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.
His fairy story. — John Fowles
There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
— Colin Powell
Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
Pain can drive you to a sense of hopelessness and despair, or it can drive you to God. It's your choice.
— Jan Northington
Sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of a tunnel. Sometimes you don't even know its there
— Campbell Thompson
My mother is my friend
Who shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her company makes me secured! — Israelmore Ayivor
Who shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her company makes me secured! — Israelmore Ayivor
He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.
— Alan Kinross
The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don't realize you're never going to catch up.
— Bryan Way
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.
— Jewel
Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day.
— Jeffery Thompson
Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can live with hopelessness for only so long before you are, in fact, hopeless.
— Robert Goolrick
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.
— Catherine Tate
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire. — Michael Cox
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire. — Michael Cox
I am sorry for when I do it
hopefully one day you'll realise why.
Please do not be angry;
just understand that today I tried. — Isabel Aanya Leigh
hopefully one day you'll realise why.
Please do not be angry;
just understand that today I tried. — Isabel Aanya Leigh
When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all.
— Cherie Hill
Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.
— R.D. Laing
That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.
— Robert Hood
If you're having trouble counting your blessings, remember that you are alive to count them.
— Charles F. Glassman
Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind -
— James Dashner
Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.
— Jack Vance
We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.
— David Arnold
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.
— Stefan Emunds
Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
There was always so much going on. Never any time to stop and smell the roses. Never any roses to stop and smell anyway.
— Ellie Lieberman
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
— C.S. Lewis
Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you. — Kelley York
Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you. — Kelley York
No matter what happens, as long as you think positively, hopelessness can never touch you!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit.
— Steve Goodier
Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.
— Bret Easton Ellis
There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.
— Shaun Hick
You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
— Taylor Swift
I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.
— Bryan Stevenson
They say that if u want to succeed, then u have to be willing to sacrifice. So I killed fear, convention, doubt, and hopelessness.
— Cheri Bauer
Genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn't tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.
— Erik Valeur
The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.
— Jeff Lindsay
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you.
— Ricky Maye