Quotes About Hopelessness

I love them without trying to change them. I look at their suffering, their hopelessness, and while I'd like to wave a hand and fix it, I can't, so I do what I can... Climb down in their misery and love them where they are... People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Desperation, she said, feels like someone's reaching down your throat and ripping out your guts.

But of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heart-breaking as unemployment...

Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No, it only had two stories. Too low. How about the elementary school? No, his ghost might frighten the children if he died there, and people would condemn him.

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

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An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Klaus watched his sister leave the library and felt a wave of hopelessness wash over him.

She could not eat, like a dog that has been sold.

Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.

She felt depressed beyond anything she had ever known before.

facing our grief is essential to combatting and overcoming our despair and powerlessness. The elders taught her that grief is not something to avoid or to be afraid of. And that if we come together and share our sadness, it can be healing." "I absolutely agree," Jane said. "It's really important for us to confront our grief and get over our feelings of helplessness and hopelessness—our very survival

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

Nothing helps. I'm a black spot on the chest X-ray of the universe.