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• In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Care

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.366

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• I never went into aesthetics. Aesthetics is what philosophers have to say about art, and a lot of them take an analytics position and raise the question, "What is an art object?" As soon as you fall into that trap, an artist is going to come along and say, "That isn't art - it's something else." That's a hopeless gig.

  Don Ihde

  Art, Fall, Philosopher

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  Aldous Huxley

  Memories, Son, Past

  Aldous Huxley, Huxley trusts and heirs (2013). “The Genius and the Goddess: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.

  Philip Pullman

  Believe, Passionate, Obsession

  Philip Pullman (2017). “The Shadow in the North: A Sally Lockhart Mystery”, p.128, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

  Edward Abbey

  Worry, Situation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.

  Heidi Julavits

  Children, Smart, People

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• These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.

  Stephen Crane

  Dream, Kings, War

  Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press

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• 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

  Trying, Stills, Absolutely Nothing

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• After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Long, People

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• How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Men, Nfl

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• It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

  Jane Goodall

  Success, Giving Up, Inspiration

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• Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

  Frances Hardinge

  Girl, Dawn, Smirk

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• In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Struggle, Dawn

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• It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

  Nick Hornby

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Tears, Weak

  Elizabeth Smart (1994). “On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart”, London : HarperCollins

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• Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Risk

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

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

  Cressida Cowell

  Degrees, Twelve, South

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• It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, Trying, Chicago

  Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• On occasions when u feel most hopeless, u must take powerful effort. We must persist in face of failure.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Powerful, Effort

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• I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don't pretend to be happy. Don't pretend to care only about their problems.

  John Corey Whaley

  Sorry, Feelings, Needs

  John Corey Whaley (2011). “Where Things Come Back”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Looks

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