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

  Sidney Poitier

  Hopeless, Domination

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

  Stefan Zweig

  Disappointment, Writing, German Language

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• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  Abbe Pierre

  Zoos, Heart, Fighting

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• I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Want, Hopeless

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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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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Xenophobia, Book

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• 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.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Air, Consideration

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Religious, Responsibility, People

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• You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

  Sean Swarner

  Inspirational, Hope, Food

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