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Quotes About Hopeless

Years ago I did a particularly angry set onstage. I talked about AIDS, the end of the world, and how silly and hopeless life was. A guy came up to me after the show and asked, "Why comedy?" That was all he said. I was dumbfounded.
~ Marc Maron
180] Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapped in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, [185] Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end; this would be worse.
~ John Milton
Garner had to search for his little girl in this endless sea of irrelevancy and indifference and preoccupied people and deteriorating places. This is crazy, this is hopeless ...
~ John Shirley
I guess this personal hide-and-seek is not unusual. And some people are 'it' all their lives - hopelessly 'it.
~ John Steinbeck
There is no dignity in death in battle. Mostly that is a splashing about of human meat and fluid, and the result is filthy, but there is a great and almost sweet dignity in the sorrow, the helpless, the hopeless sorrow, that comes down over a family with the telegram. Nothing to say, nothing to do, and only one hope—I hope he didn't suffer—and what a forlorn and last-choice hope that is.
~ John Steinbeck
The sailors of the Grand Fleet were much less polite. They called Courageous and Glorious the Outrageous and the Uproarious. The two sister ships and Furious were known as Helpless, Hopeless and Useless.
~ Unknown
Without humor, life is boring. Without love, life is hopeless. Without friends like you, life is impossible.
~ Unknown
fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible.
~ Marcus Sakey
There was a rumor—a joke? Hard to tell at the DAR—that the fluorescent bulbs were the result of a multimillion-dollar program specially engineered to offer the most hopeless light possible. Cooper didn't know about that, but they did make everyone look two weeks dead.
~ Marcus Sakey
above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...
~ Margaret Fuller
I feel the heaviness of nightmares even though I am awake. How weary I am, how sleepless and hopeless—there is no escape from the torment of wishes.
~ Unknown
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.
~ Yoshida Shoin
I'm young & I'm hopeless, I'm lost & I know this, I'm going nowhere fast that's what they say, I'm troublesome, I've fallen, I'm angry any way, it's me against this world and I'll never give up.
~ Unknown
Remain silent and remove yourself from hopeless situations, be clear and objective about your feelings and try not to let your emotions control your actions, although the actions of others may cause anger at times it is how you respond that delivers the final blow to any conflict.
~ Unknown
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.
~ Marion Woodman
Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.
~ Unknown
I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.
~ Aziz Ansari
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.
~ Alexander Lebed
You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.
~ Martin Luther
There are some who come willingly," I said, as if I had not heard him, "not out of love, but out of sickness and sadness and a lack of understanding. He wanted none of them. And so he waited without waiting, and dreamed of what he could not imagine, and performed his terrible work and lived only in the moments out of which eternity is spun, knowing it was hopeless.
~ Martine Leavitt
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
~ Unknown
I'm just one of those hopelessly romantic people so I don't think I'll ever run out of stories. I'm always looking for love. But I'm afraid now - by doing what I do - I've missed my chance to ever find it. That I'm destined to get burned again and again.
~ Unknown