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Quotes About Hopeless

And my heart aches, in hopeless pain Exhausted with repinings vain, That I shall greet them ne'er again!
~ Emily Bronte
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.
~ Emily Dickinson
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.
~ Emma Goldman
swear to God, Adam, every time I think this is hopeless and I was deluded to even try to get close to you, you say or do something that is so fucking beautiful it's like I've got no choice.
~ Amy Lane
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
~ Andre Gide
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
~ Thomas Gray
If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.
~ Simon Cowell
I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.
~ Richelle Mead
Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.
~ Rick Bragg
We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been merciful if Columbus had been wrong and the world flat, with an edge from which to fall, rather than a circular cage that returns us to our mistakes. The geography seems hopeless.
~ Robert Adams
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
~ Robert Brault
It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.
~ Robert Harris
He had just begun to realize how hard it was to get from day to day if one felt hopeless.
~ Larry McMurtry
This is what is meant by possession - to be passionately at war for the qualities in one another to contend for the treasures of each other's personalities. But how can such a war be anything but destructive and hopeless?
~ Lawrence Durrell
Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
~ Thomas Nagel
wretched set of incompetent noodles.
~ Adam Hochschild
right. It's hopeless
~ Diane Chamberlain
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
~ V. S. Pritchett
Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kind of things.
~ Jenny Han
Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way?
~ Jenny Han
Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not.
~ Jenny Han
Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kinds of things.
~ Jenny Han
My love for her seemed doomed, hopelessly unrequited. There should be songs for this, I thought, but if there were I didn't know them.
~ Jenny Offill
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial – I believe we are lost.
~ Erich Maria Remarque