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Hopelessness Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 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…
- It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.
- 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…
- 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…
More Hopelessness Quotes
- Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto
- Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give… — William Osler
- The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear… — Malala Yousafzai
- We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in… — 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… — Pema Chodron
- The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — 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… — Odell Shepard
- Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — 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… — Pema Chodron