Hopelessness Quotes

• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Positive, Hope, Men

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Hope, Courage, Giving Up

  "The Armed Forces Prayer Book". Book edited by Daniel Alfred Poling, 1951.

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

  Side Effects "My Speech to the Graduates" (1980)

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• There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hope, World, Emptiness

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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

  Sidney Poitier

  Hopeless, Domination

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• It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Depression, Crush, Pain

  "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness". Book by William Styron (Chapter VI), 1990.

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Sad, Depression, Crush

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• Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

  Jim Butcher

  Heart, Forever, Darkness

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Forever, Darkness, Tragedy

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• We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Loneliness, Medicine

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2013

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• When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Hope, Doors, Faces

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.51, Revell

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• It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

  Emmet Fox

  Love, Motivational, Mistake

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Patience, Hopeless

  "Letting Go of Hope" by Margaret J. Wheatley, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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• Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Our World, Hands

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 30, 2013

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• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

  Paula Deen

  People, Feelings, Done

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• It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Lucky, Emptiness, Imagine

  "The Struggle to Overcome Depression" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

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• The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspiring, Future, Men

  "The decay and the restoration of civilization".

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• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  Zachary Quinto

  Gay, Men, Culture

  "Zachary Quinto Addresses Homosexuality in New Interview, Blog Post" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 16, 2011.

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• I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Gaza Strip, Iraq

  "On the Side of the Peacemakers". Interview with Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March 13, 2006.

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• By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Drug, Generations

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• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Loss, Issues

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