Hopelessness Quotes

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

~ Erich Fromm

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

...he began to fear whether in the presence of far greater events, all his acts would not fade into insignificance, just as a drop of rain disappears into the sea.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

He would not now conduct little Nell to the coast; he would not convey her by a steamer to Port Said, would not surrender her to Mr. Rawlinson; he himself would not fall into his father's arms and would not hear from his lips that he had acted like a true Pole! The end, the end! In a few days the sun would shine only upon the lifeless bodies and afterwards would dry them up into a semblance of those mummies which slumber in an eternal sleep in the museums in Egypt

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

You took my heart and you held it in your mouthAnd, with a word all my love came rushing outAnd, every whisper, it's the worst, emptied out by a single wordThere is a hollow in me now...And Every whisper, every sighEats away at this heart of mineAnd there is a hollow in me now.So I put my faith in something unknownI'm living on such sweet nothingBut I'm trying to hope with nothing to holdI'm living on such sweet nothing.

~ Florence Welch

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.

~ David Rakoff

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

~ Cassandra Clare

Hope as evidence of life. Life as evidence of death.

~ Lara Biyuts

When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.

~ Christopher Hitchens

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.

~ Paul Auster

What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..

~ Ehddah

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

~ James Patterson

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.

~ Alma Katsu

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

~ Victor Hugo

The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.

~ Pawan Mishra

Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness.

~ Henry Miller

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

~ Bret Easton Ellis

You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn..

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hope is the breath that keep your dreams alive. Don’t stop breathing!.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

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

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley