Quotes about Hopelessness

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. Votes: 6

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. Votes: 6

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. Votes: 4

Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it Votes: 4

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. Votes: 4

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. Votes: 4

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Votes: 4

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off. Votes: 4

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. Votes: 4

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. Votes: 4

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. Votes: 4

I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. Votes: 4

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. Votes: 3

Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope Votes: 3

Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder Votes: 3

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility. Votes: 3

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. Votes: 3

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams. Votes: 3

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back? Votes: 3

Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him. Votes: 3

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. Votes: 3

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. Votes: 2

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. Votes: 2

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. Votes: 2

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. Votes: 2

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. Votes: 2

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving. Votes: 2

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety. Votes: 2

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. Votes: 2

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born. Votes: 2

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Votes: 2

Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimore, tremendously good and compassionate people, and a tremendous opportunity to save a lot a lives. Votes: 2

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. Votes: 2

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Votes: 2

Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. Votes: 2

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. Votes: 2

White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency. Votes: 2

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Votes: 2

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. Votes: 2

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. Votes: 2

But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit. Votes: 2

A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in. Votes: 2

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being. Votes: 1

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! Votes: 1

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. Votes: 1

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Votes: 1

I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection. Votes: 1

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts. Votes: 0

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Votes: 0

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters. Votes: 0

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness. Votes: 0

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. Votes: 0

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger. Votes: 0

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born, Votes: 0

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. Votes: 0

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Votes: 0

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. Votes: 0

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness. Votes: 0

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. Votes: 0

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. Votes: 0

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. Votes: 0

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again. Votes: 0

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. Votes: 0

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future Votes: 0

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Votes: 0

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful. Votes: 0

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves! Votes: 0

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid. Votes: 0

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness. Votes: 0

My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured! Votes: 0

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? Votes: 0

The future of civilisation depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today. Votes: 0

something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow. Votes: 0

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it. Votes: 0

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. Votes: 0

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. Votes: 0

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth. Votes: 0

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. Votes: 0

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. Votes: 0

Considering one's plate is full with circumstance, how senseless is it to assume one is able to digest someone else's hopelessness? Votes: 0

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe. Votes: 0

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. Votes: 0

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Votes: 0

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Votes: 0

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. Votes: 0

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. Votes: 0

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'? Votes: 0

At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength. Votes: 0

Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness! Votes: 0

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. Votes: 0

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. Votes: 0

Elizabeth's barreness and advanced age--a double symbol of hopelessness--became the means by which God would announce to the world that nothing is impossible for Him. Votes: 0

...co-rumination: the problem of talking too much about anything. Specifically,... when girls rehash their problems excessively, it leads to depression, anxiety, and a sense of hopelessness. Votes: 0

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space. Votes: 0

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness. Votes: 0

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life. Votes: 0

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all. Votes: 0

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do. Votes: 0

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful. Votes: 0

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will. Votes: 0

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt? Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about food to hide doubt about love.’ Votes: 0

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound. Votes: 0

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol." "But do you see what it means? Votes: 0