The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Because the one thing I hate about hope - the one thing I despise about it, that no one ever seems to… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
“Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What's the point of wandering? to find a better place? a home? But the loneliness will always capture me in its claws… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
If you look at a lot of kids from the inner city, there's this overwhelming sense of hopelessness and despair, and I… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
“Death seemed to depict the finality of the hopelessness which is man’s lot alienated from God. It does not, however, mean loss… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India… — Colin Dexter Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t lock the door anymore—not out of courage, but quiet desperation. Each night, he lies there, hollowed and waiting, hoping a… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“When you are depressed, you may have a tendency to confuse feeling with facts. Your feelings of hopelessness and total despair are… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.” — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness. — Anohni Copy Share Image
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Hopelessness can kill a soul… but hope? Maybe God can use hope to keep one alive, even if that’s all you have.” — Jessiqua Wittman Copy Share Image
“Hopelessness can be contagious. But hope can be too, and there is no medicine to match it.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“The seemingly most hateful, those on the front lines of despair, are mere instruments of sinister forces, which pull the manipulative strings… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
