Hopelessness Quote by Anonymous

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our…

— Jane Austen

I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe,…

— Ingeborg Bachmann

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Despair can come from deep grief, but it can also be a defense against the risks of bitter disappointment and shattering heartbreak. Resignation and…

— Desmond Tutu

“Depressions and melancholy are often a cover for tremendous greed. At the beginning of an analysis there is often a depressed state of resignation-life…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

— Sophie Swetchine

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should…

— Sophie Swetchine

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

— Christopher Hitchens

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is…

— Joseph Conrad

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

— Lawrence Welk

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky