Hopeless Quotes - Page 5

• Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

  Matthew Scully

  Religious, Views, People

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• Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Dope, Addiction, Smoking

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• I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Romantic, Fun, Flower

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• Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Support, Heroism

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• In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

  Karl Kraus

  Vienna, Berlin, Serious

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• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up from the eastern sea Soars the delightful day. To-day I shall be strong, No more shall yield to wrong, Shall squander life no more; Days lost, I know not how, I shall retrieve them now; Now I shall keep the vow I never kept before. 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

  Beautiful, Strong, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Molly Ivins

  Hair, Texas, Differences

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• We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Origin Of Life, Genius, Lost

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Different, Tides

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• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  Rachel Maddow

  Phones, Mail

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• Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Independent, Light

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.

  William Shakespeare

  Chaos, Ends, Procrastinating

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1744). “The Works of Shakespear”, p.387

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• I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

  Aziz Ansari

  Funny, Girl, Administration

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• Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Loss, Two

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.59, Sounds True

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• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

  William Morris Hunt

  Simple, Thinking, Despair

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• There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that writes the history of his own times, if he adhere steadily to truth, will write that which his own times will not easily endure. He must be content to reposite his book till all private passions shall cease, and love and hatred give way to curiosity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Passion, Writing

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.261

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• Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.

  Joseph McCabe

  Religious, Struggle, Past

  "The Human Origin of Morals". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1926.

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Hope, Art, Trying

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• Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it.  The unemployment figure rose to a third of the number usually employed in the nation, which means, however, that by counting the families of the unemployed as well there were 26 million people in Germany out of a population of 65 millions faced by an absolutely hopeless future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Numbers, Rose

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• I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

  Norman Spinrad

  Gifted

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• I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

  Leonard Cohen

  Home, Littles, Tonight

  Song: Democracy

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• Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.

  Jordin Sparks

  Fighting, Feelings, The End Of The Day

  "Jordin Sparks Talks THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, Filming LEFT BEHIND with Nicolas Cage, IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2013.

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