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162 Hopelessness quotes by 139 unique authors

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps… — Vaclav Havel
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. — Samuel Johnson
I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the… — Angelina Jolie
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be… — George Lucas
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. — Clare Boothe Luce
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be… — Dave Matthews
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester W. Nimitz
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what… — Abbe Pierre
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. — Sidney Poitier
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were… — Marco Rubio
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness… — Susan Polis Schutz
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let… — Woody Allen
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love… — Tim Ferriss
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to… — Lance Armstrong
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing… — Toni Morrison
Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and… — Hilary McKay
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good… — Robert Cormier
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual… — Jack Kerouac
Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it… — Jim Butcher
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases… — Mother Teresa
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a… — Franz Kafka

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