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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Men, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Fear, Europe

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• "This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Thank You, Teaching, Heart

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• When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

  Reggie Yates

  Home, Forever, Domestic Violence

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• A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Past, Self

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• Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Long, Childhood

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.265, Macmillan

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• Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

  John Brown

  War, Self, Independence

  James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.234

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• Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Suffering, Tribulation, Cease

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Bombs, Firsts

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• I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.

  Anthony Gregory

  Thinking, Government, Anarchy

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• 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

  Real, Kind, Tragic

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• I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Development, Way

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• People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

  Tony Benn

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Self, Decision

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• Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

  Armistead Maupin

  Heart, Hopeless Romantic, Stubborn

  Armistead Maupin (2011). “Tales of the City: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

  Abraham Cowley

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.50

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• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Opportunity, Rare Occasion

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. Seotember 11, 2010.

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• Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
  Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
  That rush, that drug, that dope
  Those pills, that crumb, that roach
  Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
  and growing up nobody ever does
  Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
  Swore I was goin' to be someone
  And growing up everyone always does
  We sell our dreams and our potential
  To escape through that buzz

  Macklemore

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  Song: Otherside

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• When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless.

  Wayne Dyer

  Encouragement, Writing, Desire

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Despair, May, Problem

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Humorous, Uncouth

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.361, A&C Black

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• Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside, you say, "Why are they still married?"

  Eric Braeden

  Looks, Married, Situation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hopeless Romantic, Other Half, Realistic

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