Hopelessness Quotes

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

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.

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

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

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

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

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

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.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

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.

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

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 suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment ,
anger and hopelessness.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

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 a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.