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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend… — Khalil Gibran
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling… — Joan Lowery Nixon
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply… — Peter Kreeft
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
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Euripides
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't… — D. H. Lawrence
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the… — David Wroblewski
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. — Mira Grant
Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction,… — Anne Lamott
Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their… — Laura Hillenbrand
Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to… — Michael J. Fox
...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in… — John Piper
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I… — Chuck Palahniuk
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is,… — Stephen Fry
To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness… — Edgar Allan Poe
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin
I understand perfectly. Darquesse isn't a separate entity. She isn't another person. She's you. If you make the wrong choices, if you stop loving the… — Derek Landy
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your… — Kevin Smith
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,… — Douglas Kennedy
I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond… — Juliet Marillier

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