Hopelessness Quotes

162 quotes by 139 authors

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness… — Benazir Bhutto
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness… — William Osler
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died.… — Malala Yousafzai
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who… — Mother Teresa
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact… — Pema Chodron
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. — Margaret J. Wheatley
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless. — Odell Shepard
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one… — Abraham Pais
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is… — Pema Chodron
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Michael Shannon
Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'? — Jeremy Clarkson
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to… — Carl Sagan
As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not… — Billy Corgan
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth. — Barry Lopez
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for… — George W. Bush
When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we… — Sheila Walsh
Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. — Robert Breault

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