Hopelessness Quotes

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and p...

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in s...

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you bel...

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of h...

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itsel...

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...

A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time ...

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

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would ha...

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert t...

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume ...

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there wo...

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate ...

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die...

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange brig...

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clea...

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned,...

All's well that ends well.''Assuming there's an end somewhere,' Aomame said.Tamaru formed some short...

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be ...

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in w...

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said...

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into ...

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

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

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the di...

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare...

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

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not ...

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life wer...

I threw my hands in the air and said show me something.He said, "if you dare come a little closer".

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now re...