Best Hopelessness Sayings
162 Hopelessness quotes by 139 unique authors
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Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us…
— Billy Graham
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at…
— Zachary Quinto
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
— Judah Smith
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The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere…
— Philip K. Dick
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This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth…
— Anne Lamott
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Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple…
— Napoleon Hill
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It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
— Robert Breault
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We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my…
— Ron Pope
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The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very…
— Gerhard Richter
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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed…
— Jane Jacobs
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Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.
— R. D. Laing
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No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated object that must…
— Deborah Lupton
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While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or…
— Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
— William Styron
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Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and…
— Benjamin Hooks
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Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.
— Gerhard Richter
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The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
— Hal Lindsey
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As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being -…
— Tim Scott
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The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
— Jules Shear
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It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in…
— Criss Jami
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The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the…
— William E. Gladstone
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient…
— Emmet Fox
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I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West…
— Michael Franti
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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