Quotes About Hopelessness

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

I grieved for him, my hands empty and idle, plucking the air like birds peck at dry earth.

It was quite possible that she had lost the capacity to love and care anymore and that this is how she was going to be for the rest of her life.

Esme looks up, sees the watch in Iris's outstretched hand and shakes her head. She holds up the blue check material and Iris sees that it is a dress, a woollen dress, that it's crumpled and two of the buttons are missing, torn out from the fabric. Esme is shaking it, as if something might be caught in its folds, then casts it aside.

we are seized by the urge to weep For one who died for nothing.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

you experience the one thing that drunks and druggies and all the miserable, lonely, unhappy people in this world share.' 'And what's that?

Le désespoir, c'est comme la prison, la mine ou l'usine. Ça vous lâche jamais.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Once I had surrendered motion, despond fixed me. After a while I slid off the rock I was perched on, lay down, and rolled over on my face. In time feeling was so narrowed that even hopelessness was squeezed out. I all but was not.

You can't love here. This is Hell.

Scratching their nails on the blackboard of futility.

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.

Feed a man, cloth him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.

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The political reality Steinbeck examined in Of Mice and Men, set a "few miles south of Soledad"—Spanish for "solitude"—is the intense loneliness and anger engendered by hopelessness.

You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

People ask me if I believe in forever and I can't help but sit back and laugh because with the way my life is going, i don't even believe in tomorrow..

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.