Hopeless Quotes - Page 14

• We measure our success of love in the images of love. But those images are static. And it's a hopeless project, because our love will never be like that image. The actual reality of love in our lives is much more chaotic.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Reality, Images Of Love, Our Love

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

  Kofi Annan

  Done, Desperate

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS Newshour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Running, Passion, Ideas

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Other Side of a Frontier”, p.232, A&C Black

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• Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Race, Ideas

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  The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance.

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1903). “More Letters of Charles Darwin (Complete)”, p.520, Library of Alexandria

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• I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Car, Buttons

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World, Wiser, Without God

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• Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory seemd a kind of fiction, or vice versa. Either way, no matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore... Warm with life, hopeless unstable.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Home, Writing

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

  John McLaughlin

  Romantic, Love Is, Keys

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Fighting, People

  "The Flying Inn". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1914.

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• My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

  John le Carre

  Country, Philosophy, Years

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• Good is that darkening of our lives,
  Which only God can brighten;
  But better still that hopeless load,
  Which none but God can lighten.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Darkening, Stills

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.231

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• Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Honesty, Men, Being Honest

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Eye, People

  D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.

  B. C. Forbes

  Letting Go, War, Animal

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• No labor is hopeless.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Labor

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• Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Enemy, Mixtures, Satan

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.369

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• I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Loss, Presence Of Mind, Brave

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• I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Kids, Actors, Causes

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• Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy any more. It's no fun putting on ten years and fifty pounds all of a sudden. Other times, I get up and I'm pleasantly surprised that I'm not a weary innkeeper, hopeless, with bones that feel like they're made of lead. I really sink into the characters that I write.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Fun, Character, Writing

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• People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Years, People, Honest

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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