“Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“I kept hoping because she couldn’t afford to lose hope. I kept my faith so she wouldn’t lose hers.” — K. Howard Joslin Copy Share Image
That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid. — Robert Hood Copy Share Image
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Without being hope to yourself, you cannot be hope to others!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and… — A.B. Shepherd Copy Share Image
“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“Give up on the irrational hopes that your hopelessness will kill you, it won’t, it will just hurt a lot.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of… — Karen Fortunati Copy Share Image
“I love her still, for if you know anything about that kind of feeling, you know how close it is connected to… — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
“You have the freedom and the ability to decide what to do with your life, and that includes learning how to welcome… — Becca Vry Copy Share Image
I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
There's a sense of hopelessness that I'm really trying to combat. And if a movie that I do gives somebody confidence, or… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are many people that can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. They have feelings of hopelessness and feel… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles. One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and… — Gemma B. Benton Copy Share Image
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far… — Gargi Bhattacharyya Copy Share Image
“He pulled the gun from his waist, running it along my cheek and back down to my lips. I blinked back the… — Holly Hood 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
One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since before time began. It… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
“I think there is a place where hopefulness and hopelessness co-exist, one of my beloved contradictory co-existing realities (what others call a paradox,… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Repentance is like a cloudburst that cleans the penitent soul of sin and washes away hopelessness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I can feel the grip of lost lives beneath me, starved hearts hoping to escape their shadowy fates.” — Ky Grabowski Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day — Jeffery Thompson Copy Share Image
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The worst sin you can ever commit to yourself is to sit and wait for someone to give you money” — Mac Duke The Strategist Copy Share Image
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness. — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
