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Quotes About Hopelessness

Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?
~ L.M. Montgomery
The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for--neither love, duty, purpose nor hope--holds for her the bitterness of death.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Youth is the age of despairs.
~ Lawrence Durrell
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
~ Arsenie Boca
Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
~ Faraaz Kazi
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
~ John Milton
The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.
~ Sister Souljah
What has been cut apart cannot be glued back together. Abandon all hope of totality, future as well as past, you who enter the world of fluid modernity.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
To have a fear you have to be able to imagine the future, and I never think about the future anymore. It is no longer my destination.
~ Abigail Thomas
Deader than a coffin nail, because a coffin nail is still performing useful work, and so in one sense is as alive as it's ever been. Dead as hope. Dead as our financial affairs. Gone.
~ Adam Roberts
You are…you are…" The merchant tried to control himself. "You have nothing. You are nothing!
~ Alan Dean Foster
It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or died. One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. The next day it might be you who is shot through the head. You could play the game perfectly and still lose, so why bother playing at all?
~ Alan Gratz
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
~ Alan Moore
And that next day, he was in the black mood, what we call the swartgalligheid, which is the black gall. And the heart is black too, and the world is black, and one can tell oneself that it will pass, but these are only words that one speaks to oneself, for while it is there it is no comfort that it will pass.
~ Alan Paton
There are times, I don't know if they come to everyone, when I feel that the future is beyond my strength: too much horror to deal with and no help to turn to.
~ Derek Raymond
This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Sve nam se smrklo da ne svane nikad, jer i nema za šta kad nam je sudbina pse?a i do rata i u ratu.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
Look at hopelessness in the face and say: "We are simply not meant to be together." Hold courage's hand and walk away.
~ Dodinsky
Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the
~ Don Piper
Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us. Meese encouraged me by reminding me of the real reason we have for fully living this life. It's to give everything we have to God--even the heartbreaks and pain. God is our reason to live.
~ Don Piper