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title: "4 Hopeless Sense Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kofi-annan/when-things-are-really-desperate-and-hopeless-and-you-can-t-do/)

[Kofi Annan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kofi-annan/)

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> [A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-cahill/a-constant-ongoing-joke-among-the-people-that-i-travel-with-is-my/)

[Tim Cahill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-cahill/)

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> [“To say a situation is ‘lost’ or hopeless is in one sense equivalent to saying it is perfect, for in both cases…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mancur-olson/to-say-a-situation-is-lost-or-hopeless-is-in-one-sense-equivalent-to/)

[Mancur Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mancur-olson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc1/mancur-olson-52505_hope_to-say-a-situation-is-lost-or-hopeless-i_1862526.png)

> [ “\[...\] leaving for a day or two that hopeless sense of loss which makes beauty what it is: a distant lone tree… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/leaving-for-a-day-or-two-that-hopeless-sense-of-loss-which-makes/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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