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Famous Hopeless Quotes
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester W. Nimitz
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. — Bill Ayers
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don’t. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. — Martha Beck
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. — Clare Boothe Luce
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. — Laini Taylor
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
Hope is the most hopeless thing of all. — Abraham Cowley
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. — Madeleine L’Engle
He won’t run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He’s hopeless in the soft. — David Atkins
Once you choose hope, anything is possible. — Christopher Reeve
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having positive results. — Willie Nelson
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. — Anne Lamott
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. — Agatha Christie
Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work. — Bob Black
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: Then you must save it. And even though I know it’s hopeless- there’s absolutely nothing left to save-I’m afraid if I tell her that, she’ll still persuade me to try. — Amy Tan
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — St. Francis of Assisi
That was as hopeless as I’ve felt in the pocket trying to get something done, ever. — David Carr
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
I’m hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it’s good to study the theory of music. — Brian May
At this point in my career, it doesn’t bother me much that I’m probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working. — Donald Pleasence
I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife. — Nick Cannon
Hopelessness Quotes
The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever. — Nina LaCour
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. ― Hippocrates
And what am I to do on the occasion? — It seems an hopeless business. — Jane Austen
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis
it was about offering the biggest help I could to a devastated, unemployed, homeless, but now not hopeless group of people. — Steve Holland
I’ve seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn’t cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That’s not right. — Jack Kevorkian
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov
John Kerry’s shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world, — Steve Schmidt
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise L. Hay
We were hopeless in the first-half, nowhere near our best and insipid, but better in the second-half and it was more like a Cup-tie and I thought we might just nick a goal to win it. — Paul Jewell
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now — and do it. — William Durant
Sad Hopeless Quotes
Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There’s people dying on the streets of Chicago – young people, young men and women who are losing their lives. — Lupe Fiasco
Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day. — A. E. Housman
When Chris shoots he was shooting the last-second shot for a reason. It went off the top of the glass and I thought, ‘Well, it’s hopeless now because Chris missed it.’ Collin grabs it and puts it back in and it was like just shock for a second. Then, it was sheer craziness. — Clay Byington
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If this blows up, it could usher a period of economic weakening and political instability. This development paints a desperate and hopeless picture of the Philippines. — Earl Parreno
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell
Without Montreal, Canada would be hopeless. — Anthony Bourdain
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. — B. R. Hayden
I’m hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact. — Gary Numan
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. — D. H. Lawrence
I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, … As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation – bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome – people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it. — David Satcher
I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. — Rachel Maddow
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore. — Anne Lamott
I’m hopeless with money; I simply spend what I’ve got. — Freddie Mercury
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best. — Aldo Leopold
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also. — Ralph Abernathy
I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless. — Anne Beatts
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. — Edward Sapir
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? — Camille Paglia
That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. — J.K. Rowling
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed. — Travis Bradberry
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be. — Zadie Smith
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. — Gordon W. Allport
All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you’re laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I’m saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred. — Artie Lange
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe – hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can’t go home because of Israel, and can’t work because of Lebanese laws – are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists. — Richard Engel
I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed. — Katie McGarry
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It’s everywhere. — Sidney Poitier
I’m hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people’s feelings, but then I’ll blow it 10 minutes later. — Nicholas Haslam
As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook. — Antonia Fraser
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope. — Anne Carson
Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. — Atticus
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn’t know to write. — Mary Garden
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer. — Ben Whishaw
Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I’m not a hopeless romantic. — Randeep Hooda
Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated – and hopeless. — Carl Rogers
Feeling Hopeless Quotes
As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver. — David Wilkerson
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out. — Joe Strummer
Satan–the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend–the enemy of all that is human and divine. — Anna Jameson
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. — Erika Slezak
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. — George Gissing
I’m a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love. — Jennifer Lopez
That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. —Elizabeth Wurtzel
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. — Henry Rollins
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. — Jan Egeland
I’m a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it. — Alex Pettyfer
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic. — Natascha McElhone
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married? — Eric Braeden
You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. — Carlos Ghosn
You can always find contradictions and hope, in hopeless circumstances, and a sense of redemption in somebody who makes the same mistake, over and over. So far, so good. That’s how I put it. — Chris Bauer
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells me finding true love is likely a hopeless proposition. Now is the time when I need to believe in fairy tales. — Roxane Gay
Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there’s life. — Alan Moore
Much of the marble coldness of Hester’s impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother’s father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father’s mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory’s piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I’m completely hopeless in music. — Lawrence Weschler
I said that if I hadn’t been a politician, I’d have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: ‘You’d be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.’ I said ‘Why?’ She said: ‘Because you’re not an original thinker.’ — John Bercow
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven’t – if I’ve just met somebody, it’s hopeless. — Chuck Close
Certainly I’ve never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It’s a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing… — Don DeLillo
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless. — Keanu Reeves
Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife? — Robert Bridges
Be someone’s light when they are hopeless. — Dave Grohl
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. — Tony Blair
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. — Gideon Welles
I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless – that all things are possible through prayer. — Charles L. Allen
Deep Hopeless Quotes
Nothing’s hopeless except never trying. — C. J. Cherryh
I’m a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale. — Rachel McAdams
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 hopelessness is hurting you, it’s the fixtures and fittings that finish you off. — Angelina Jolie
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it. — Octavia E. Butler
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that’s a hopeless failure. — D. H. Lawrence
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year. — Jane Austen
It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun. — Keanu Reeves
People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless. — Danielle Steel
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion – she’s totally organised, whereas I’m hopeless. — Meg Rosoff
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make. — Andy Andrews
The situation is catastrophic. I can see the hopeless situation of the city… this cultural dismantling is an incredible shame for Berlin. — Simon Rattle
She’s lost every key person on her campaign. Some of them have been with her since the beginning of her career. It is hopeless at this point. She is becoming a caricature rather than a candidate. — Darryl Paulson
I’m hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. — Tom Stoppard
We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain. — Zhou Min
He was just hopeless with girls at high school, — Todd Nelson
I won’t have a traditional marriage; I don’t find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself. — Halle Berry
In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
I’d be hopeless at directing. I’m not the type. You’ve got to really know what you’re doing and be quite controlling. It’s a very lonely job. — Julie Walters
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. — Jane Jacobs
You know you’re a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive. — Adam Mansbach
Only Saudi Arabia has surplus capacity, and if its oil flow should be disrupted, it could bring a hopeless situation. — Tony Nunan
When the situation is hopeless, there’s nothing to worry about. — Edward Abbey
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won’t stop till I get it right. — Halle Berry
Her generation lived through two world wars and lost. She represents a hopeless identity of people in the wake of World War II. — Anik Fournier
My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I’m so hopeless with technology. — Becki Newton
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle. So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that. — P.G. Wodehouse
So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that. — Tony Blair
I’m not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won’t stop till I get it right. — Halle Berry
I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing. D.D. Barant
When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was ‘too old’ and ‘no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.’ I felt hopeless and alone. — Angela Featherstone
