Quotes About Hopelessness

The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain—the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out the light in the man's eye and the light of learning too, for who can reason if Oxford is a giant puddle and Cambridge is washing away downstream, and who will enforce the laws if the judges are swimming for their lives?

T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.

Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes

Though I grieve, there is no help;Vainly I long to see her.Men tell me that my wife isIn the mountains of Hagai—Thither I go,Toiling along the stony path;But it avails me not,For of my wife, as she lived in this world,I find not the faintest shadow.

I imagine giving up. No more peering through windows, mourning the loss of a life that could never again be mine. No more hopeless desire. No more uncertain future. No more terror.

We're not going to be fine, Tana. We're never going to be fine ever again.

Charlie's sister had spent the last few years bingeing Reddit threads, watching videos, and chatting with other gloamist hopefuls until dawn. But lately things had gotten worse. Posey had started staying up for days at a stretch and not leaving the house for weeks. Despair seemed to be chasing her heels as her shadow refused to quicken. She'd gone so deep down the rabbit hole that Charlie worried it had become an oubliette.

I can see when the light goes out of his eyes, like a torch thrown into the sea.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

En se résignant, le malheureux consomme son malheur.

I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better—even when you know perfectly well that nothing will.

She is in a rut. That's the problem. These sandwiches are a symbol of a life that's going nowhere.

When you rely on God, his resurrection power will guide you out of hopelessness and into a hope-filled future.

last night. As far as I know.' Meg groaned. 'You're all fucking useless

There is no peace in poverty

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Pamaž?le žengiau prie pabaigos, netur?damas nei kit? vil?i?, nei kitoki? troškim?,išskyrus tuos, kuriais teks užpildyti savo knygas, ?sitikin?s, kad paskutinis mano širdies pol?kis bus ?rašytas ? paskutinio mano rašt? tomo puslap? ir kad mir?iai atiteks tik lavonas.

No one knew how to end it. The war had settled into unbearable, unwinnable battles. It had reached a point where there were no more victories, only death.

Depression depleted your energy; the main cause of suicide was a deadly fusion of hopelessness, anxiety and panic.

some children are neglected in both domains, emotionally and materially. No matter where they turn, they encounter deprivation. These children usually just give up and learn to expect nothing (the Surrender coping style).

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, Baksheesh! Baksheesh! Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops. Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you, Mitchell said. Yeah, well, Mike said, obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.

I don't want to ruin your life, Leonard said in a gentler tone. You're not ruining it. The drugs just slow the process down. But the end's inevitable. The question is, how to turn this thing off? He jabbed at his head with his index finger. It's cutting me up, and I can't turn it off. Madeleine, listen to me. Listen. I'm not going to get better.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?