Hopelessness Quotes

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

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.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

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.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

...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.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nig*er, if I was ever so good, » said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»

Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.