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Quotes About Hopeless

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.
~ Deborah Copaken Kogan
She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Futile: it was an epitaph on his past and an adjective for his tomorrow.
~ A.J. Quinnell
Six Lines I know that in this world no one needs me, me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish? Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty and only the ephemeral is godly and humility is the only true rebellion
~ Aaron Zeitlin
Were there always to be more damage, damage would be an aspect of perfection. We would all be angels, one-legged and faceless, seething with endless, hopeless praise. Bless Adonai for making us better than angels. Blessed is Adonai for making us human.
~ Adam Levin
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
~ Chris Lowell
How the stars shone. How sweet the earth smelled. The orchard gate creaked, and a footstep pressed on the sand. And she entered, fragrant as a flower, and fell into my arms. Oh, sweet kisses, lingering caresses. Slowly, trembling, I gazed upon her beauty. Now my dream of true love is lost forever. My last hour has flown, and I die, hopeless, and never have I loved life more.
~ Puccini Giacomo 1858-1924
I love bleak things.
~ Denise Mina
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
~ Alice Miller
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
~ Bill Ayers
By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.
~ Glenn Beck
Diagnosticians of society should play their mission coldly and clinically. They should not be compelled to minister to morale. That should be left to coaches, therapists, clerics, or the like. If a commentator perceives a situation to be hopeless, he should say so.
~ Randall Kennedy
Without truth, spirituality is nothing more than a hopeless confession that sheer matter alone does not answer life's deepest hungers.
~ Ravi Zacharias
In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights resembled an oval patch of night sky flung down into the hopeless and abysmal night of the wilderness.
~ Joseph Conrad
I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness.
~ Joseph Conrad
The most hopeless idleness is that most smoothed with excellent plans.
~ Walter Bagehot
People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.
~ Danielle Steel
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.
~ James Frey
If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.
~ James MacDonald
I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in Daddy Glen's eyes, I wanted to die. No, I wanted to be already dead, cold and gone. Everything felt hopeless. He looked at me and I was ashamed of myself. It was like sliding down an endless hole, seeing myself at the bottom, dirty, ragged, poor, stupid.
~ Dorothy Allison
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.
~ Douglas Adams
HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide] J: People do. HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see. ~Hilary Craven; Jessop
~ Agatha Christie
Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
~ Agatha Christie