Hopelessness Quotes
162 quotes by 139 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
— Colin Powell
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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
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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
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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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
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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
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Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
— Michael Shannon
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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
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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
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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
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I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.
— Barry Lopez
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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
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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
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Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.
— Robert Breault
Who Wrote These Hopelessness Quotes
139 authors contributed a total of 162 Hopelessness Quotes, led by these top contributors: