I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.” — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things. — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again. — Jules Shear Copy Share Image
“I meant only to point out that in hopelessness there is always hope.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Terry recalled far better days when she'd risen bright and early every morning… Days before darkness had closed in and refused to… — Dawn M. Turner Copy Share Image
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands,… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Muck: A state of being that disempowered and fills us with self-doubt, self-hate, worry, fear, mediocrity, and an overall feeling of hopelessness… — Teri Karjala Copy Share Image
I just think it would be a good thing to have a voice in the mix of all the hopelessness that actually… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again. I mean the world looked different forever after, and even… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
“My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell. Insidiously I had lost my grip, and… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“But right here, right now, in the center of this wound—I’ve been abandoned and betrayed by who and what really matters and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it. — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.” — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image