Hopelessness Quotes

Hopelessness Quote of the day

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

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 resolves: I can and I will.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

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. Strength, power and courage was born.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

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 hopelessness.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

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 and fear.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.

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 “space.

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 have hope because God is faithful.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

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 wildest dreams in life.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.

Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

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 ever love at all.

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 human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.