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• The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

  Hal Lindsey

  Law, Despair, Able

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• As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

  Tim Scott

  School, Kids, Frustration

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hunting, Years, World

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Meaningful, Good Life, Views

  "Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?". The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2009.

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• The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

  Richard Leakey

  Numbers, People, Environmental

  Interview, content.time.com. April 11, 1999.

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• My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mother, Cry, Blindness

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• I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Tragedy, Literature

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• ... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

  John Ashbery

  Moon, Journey, Confusion

  John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth (1971). “John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth”, Not Avail

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• "Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ocean, Ideas, Sometimes

  "Neil Gaiman interview: The year of living crazily". Interview with David Barnett, www.independent.co.uk. June 9, 2013.

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• A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.

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  Ram Dass

  Writing, Dark, Age

  Interview with Douglas Gillies, www.douglasgillies.com.

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• A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Imagination, Despair

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

  Seth

  Reality, Thinking, Tragedy

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• I campaigned for [Barack] Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Years, Iowa, Cities

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, November 22, 2011.

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• For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grateful, Dwarves, Despair

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• There are many people that can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. They have feelings of hopelessness and feel like they don't have any purpose on this Earth. Some of them feel like death is the only option they have. I know because I felt that way.

  Jason Peter

  Tunnels, Light, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Car, People, Kind

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Enthusiasm

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• It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

  David S. Baxter

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving Up

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• Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.

  Jacques Derrida

  Loving Someone, Expectations, Heidegger

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• ...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Philosophy, Positive Thinking, Positive Attitude

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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• In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be like those who were healed and strengthened in hope and able to stand when the lightning bolt hit. We deal with these fissures of hopelessness by stepping into these new hopes. The four new hopes that I saw the Lord giving us in this time are: Hope for the Unseen, Hope Against Hope, Carefree Hope, and Childlike Hope.

  Bob Hartley

  Dream, Doors, Giving

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• The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

  Jewel

  Loneliness, Talking, Secret

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• I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, Justice, Enemy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My own work on depression demonstrated that men and women often have different symptoms, with males often becoming more irritable, angry, and aggressive when they are depressed, while women show the more inward symptoms such as sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

  Jed Diamond

  Sadness, Men, Becoming

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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