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Quotes About Hopeless

But love's a malady without a cure.
~ John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,In dying notes, discoversThe woes of hopeless lovers.
~ John Dryden
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
~ Elizabeth Berg
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
~ Charles Robert Maturin
Is your home life more sorrow than joy? This isn't the way it's supposed to be. It should be more joy than sorrow. If it is, you know. If it isn't, you also know. Remember this… God is always with you. This is the bedrock that allows the hopeless to remedy their situation.
~ Edward Weiss
Violence destroyed families. Violence destroyed lives. ... He'd never been a violent man, but he'd seen it. It killed the spirit and left families fearful and hopeless.
~ Gail Gaymer Martin
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
~ B. R. Hayden
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
~ Nellie Bly
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
~ Rousseau
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When death comes knocking, all of a sudden, you will find this body does not mean anything. All your qualifications will not mean anything. Your husband, wife and children will not mean anything. Your fancy clothes will not mean anything. You will be hopeless. Like a vulture, I will wait for that moment, because, then, you will become willing. But if you are intelligent, if you have any sense in you, you will create that willingness right now.
~ Sadhguru
But Slipher felt he needed to acquire an even better spectrum to peg the exact speed. It was an endeavor, he told Lowell, that "would doubtless impress all these observers as a quite hopeless undertaking, and maybe it is, but I want [to] make an attempt.
~ Marcia Bartusiak
All she wants is a miracle, because anything else is hopeless.
~ Margaret Atwood
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
~ Michel Foucault
Revenge is a lure, a mighty molten lure, even if it is hopeless!
~ Anne Rice
It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more than that he could go like this forever, our silent accomplice, little more than a resuscitated corpse.
~ Anne Rice
How alien all humans seemed, and how hopeless their plight. Cursed as he was, he could not die, but death was breathing on all of them.
~ Anne Rice
If ever a creature was earthbond, it's the vampire. We're wed, soul and body, hopelessly. Only the most painful death by fire can rip that bond.
~ Anne Rice
They couldn't see how maddening death really was, how colossally pointless in every way.
~ Scott Westerfeld
We only know how to lose and be lost.
~ Sherman Alexie
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
~ Nick Hornby
I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
~ Nikki Cox