Hopelessness Quotes

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sleep to forget everything

— Taya Eader

Hopelessness is a black dot in a bright world

— Anonymous

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“May hope shine through every broken heart.”

— Anoir Ou-chad

“Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.”

— Jeff Lindsay

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ümitsizlik özfarkındalık uğruna ödenen bedeldir.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I threw my hands in the air and said show me something. He said, "if you dare come a little closer".”

— Rihanna

“And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.”

— Laisha Rosnau

“The placid hopelessness of adulthood. The complex regret.”

— David Foster Wallace

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”

— C.S. Lewis

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

— Sidney Poitier

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

— Anais Nin

“You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.”

— Isaac Asimov

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who…

— Anne Lamott

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out…

— Robert Cormier

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

— Yevgeny Baratynsky

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

— Barack Obama

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be…

— Richard Leakey

“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel -…

— Jon Stewart

“Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.”

— J.E.B. Spredemann

“Hope is always about the future. And it isn't always good news. Sometimes, hope can imprison us with belief or expectation that…

— Daniel Gottlieb

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower…

— Rick Bragg

It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere…

— Tarthang Tulku

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black…

— A. Philip Randolph

“To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give…

— Michael Eric Dyson

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair…

— John Piper

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are…

— Norman Cousins

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its…

— Anonymous

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The new cultural belief that everything should be fun, fast, and easy is inconsistent with hopeful thinking. It also sets us up…

— Brené Brown

“What unites us is our despair. Do other people wish to know that someone else walked this earth with a similar batch…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity…

— Thomas Ligotti

“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

“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change…

— Shannon L. Alder

“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks…

— Mary Ann Evans

“We search for something we cannot grab hold of, something that will satisfy our deep longing. But since we usually look in…

— Meg Meeker