Quotes About Hopelessness

I think that sometimes the only thing that can make you laugh is accepting the idea that there's no way out.

The greatest disease's are loneliness, despair, and hopelessness. The only cure is Love.

Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When they glanced up at us in unison, they reminded me of late-night drinkers in a bar who stare at the front door each time it opens, as though the person coming through it possesses an answer to the hopelessness that governs their lives.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

But no one came. Because no one ever does.

Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places—a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I, too, am here." However,

I had fled that place in hopes of finding another that had been founded upon different principles and operated under a different order. But there was no such place, or none that I could find. It seemed the only course of action left to me was to make an end of it.

this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know.

The universe is not just meaningless, but malignantly useless.

What Ascrobius sought,' the doctor explained, 'was not a remedy for his physical disease, not a cure in any usual sense of the word. What he sought was an absolute annulment , not only of his disease but of his entire existence. On rare occasions he even spoke to me', the doctor said, 'about the uncreation of his whole life.

Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or hatred, forces to live behind prison bars.

Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.

And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Bessie could not keep from thinking, "His nightmare will be over, but mine will never be.

You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. —Susan Sontag

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Bazan Füsun'un hayallere dald???n? yüzünden anlar, onun hayal ettiÄŸi ülkeye gitmek ister, ama kendimi, hayat?m?, a??rl???m?, masada oturuÅŸumu çok umutsuz bulurdum.

Solo un poeta -ni siquiera un novelista y aun menos un historiador-podría describir la sensación de desesperanza que empezó a impregnar la ciudad de Arkaz a mediados de junio.