Hopelessness Quotes

At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.

~ Jeff Lindsay

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

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

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

~ H. Rider Haggard

One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.

~ Shaka Senghor

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

~ Erica Lindquist

Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don’t tend to know it.

~ Shannon Celebi

….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It had been decided before she began. Nothing could be done. There was no point in trying. It was way too late. The inevitability of nothing was totally supreme, overriding everything. No way out. No way through. She could only accept the unacceptable. She could only endure the unendurable. Nothing was wrong!Nothing was wrong and the wrongness of this awesome nothing seeped from her. Some people, only a few, saw it. Some people, only a few felt it. Some people, only a few, recognised it and in recognising it for what it was, raged against it. Through the nothingness, these few reached out for her.She could not reach back. Through the nothingness, these few fought for her. She could not fight back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few cared for her. She could not care back for herself. Through the nothingness, these few spoke out for her, shattering the frozen silence over and over again. She could not speak out for herself…. “*I hope this may give some comfort to people who need it. There are good, caring people (whether outside or within yourself, if need be) and you do deserve to be cared for and supported as much as anyone else does.From “Nothing”, one of the short stories in “Fight! Rabbit! Fight!

~ Laurie Matthew

I’ve learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I’ve learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head.

~ Zoë Marriott

...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

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

~ Judah Smith

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.

~ Fred Munoz

And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.

~ Sara Keddar

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

~ Munia Khan

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last -- far off -- at last, to all,And every winter change to spring.

~ Alfred Tennyson

Hope is when we have a beautiful vision of something and a positive emotion to go along with it. When our world comes crashing down, when we are trapped in a deep, dark, despairing hopelessness, we need a bigger perspective. Hope comes when we reflect on all that we hold dearand true, when we acknowledge a higher power, when we acknowledge God in our lives and begin to see what He has planned for our lives.

~ Laura Lane

Despair is not for the living but for those unable to rise and continue; they are the only souls with a right to it. It is an end where breath and strength and will have vanished, leaving no way to persevere. To sink into the abyss that is despair is to suffer an existence far worse than death; therefore, cling to its enemy, our ally—hope. For life goes on, and we must not live in despair. We must not.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Powerlessness is an excruciating pain, it is torture insurmountable.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

~ Michel Faber

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.

~ Elie Wiesel

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.

~ Frank Mccourt

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

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Never be defined by what has happened to you in the past, it was just a life lesson, not a life sentence. ~ Donald Pillai

~ Donald Pillai

Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

~ C.s. Lewis

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

~ Alan Kinross

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

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

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease.

~ Carson Mccullers

The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings of manufactured supremacy.

~ T.f. Hodge

…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur, especially when one is all too highly conscious of the hopelessness of one’s position.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 Brontë

Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness―the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness―of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.

~ Guy De Maupassant

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

~ Melina Marchetta

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

~ Greg Van Eekhout

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

~ Leeann Taylor

You’ve had many ordeals in the past. During these ordeals, life seemed unbearable. You may have collapsed from the exhaustion of hopelessness and curled into a fetal position. Regardless of how difficult this new ordeal may be, as with the others, this too will be overcome. It will make you stronger.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks flecked with the afternoon sunshine through the boughs: I was in the midst of such scenes, and in all of them one presence seemed to weigh on me in all these mighty shapes - the presence of something unknown and pitiless. For continual suffering had annihilated religious faith within me: to the utterly miserable - the unloving and the unloved - there is no religion possible, no worship but a worship of devils. And beyond all these, and continually recurring, was the vision of my death - the pangs, the suffocation, the last struggle, when life would be grasped at in vain. (The Lifted Veil)

~ George Eliot

Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love.

~ Ken Poirot