Hopeless Quotes - Page 16

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

  Salman Rushdie

  War, Long, People

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• There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Sorrow, Useless

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.107

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• Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

  Frank Zappa

  Insult, Kind, Literacy

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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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• 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 will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.

  Og Mandino

  Greatness, Vocabulary, Phrases

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.38, Bantam

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• A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Loss, Doe, Weight

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• Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Heart, Long Ago

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.85, Macmillan

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• In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

  Madeline Miller

  Love, Light, Hands

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• And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Seems, Occasions

  Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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• This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Eye, Broken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.325, A&C Black

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• When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Land, Forever

  "The Goldfinch". Book by Donna Tartt, 2013.

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• My first six years in the business were hopeless.
  There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?
  I'll never make it.
  It's just not going to happen.
  I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Men, Civilization

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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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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• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Mean, Kitchen

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• Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Baseball, Football, Running

  "Quagmire Seekers". Column at Jewish World Review, jewishworldreview.com. December 18, 2003.

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• I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

  Tom Stoppard

  Trying

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• I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

  Harlan Ellison

  Pain, Philosophy, Sadness

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  Jane Austen

  Son, Years, Fortune

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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