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Quotes About Hopelessness

I do not expect to see home again.
~ Edward Snowden
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
~ Harlan Coben
Her body begs to be taken away and put into a warm bed with the sheets pulled high, even though nothing can help now.
~ Steven Herrick
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'
~ Spiro T. Agnew
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.
~ Avril Lavigne
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
~ Gordon Strachan
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
~ Thabo Mbeki
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.
~ Sheila Walsh
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
~ A. J. Cronin
Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.
~ Groucho Marx
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
~ Bob Dylan
Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
~ Mason Cooley
School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.
~ Albert Shanker
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
~ Dante Alighieri
. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.
~ J.W. Lord
It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.
~ Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.
~ Chimo, Lila Says
No hope no action.
~ Peter Levi
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.
~ Olivia Harvard, Flo