Hopeless Quotes - Page 17

• In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Real, Opera, Aria

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.111, Random House

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• Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

  Torey L. Hayden

  Laughter, Laughing, Magic

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• When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Indulge In, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  Zadie Smith

  Trying, Jargon, Upstart

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• It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.

  Keanu Reeves

  Fun, Dangerous, Hopelessly In Love

  "Keanu Plays Doctor in New Romantic Comedy". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.filmmonthly.com. November 30, 2003.

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• At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

  Donald Pleasence

  Careers, Horror, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

  Halle Berry

  Romantic, Hopeless Romantic

  "Halle Berry Is Back on the Market for Mr. Right" by Alison Schwartz, people.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

  Theodore Bikel

  Bored, Workers, Manure

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• Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

  Tony Blair

  Real, World, Modern

  Valedictory Address to the Labour Party Conference, delivered 26 September 2006, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Situation, Finality, Convince

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• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  Kate Millett

  Mean, Bipolar, Doe

  "Imagine, Dignity with Mental Illness - Much Work to Do" by Kerry Ryan-Kuhn, June 12, 2013.

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• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

  Gary Numan

  Eye, Problem, Contact

  "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Glory

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

  Ayn Rand

  Pride, Want, Longing

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.357, Penguin

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• Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Thinking, Hopeless Romantic, Style

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl: #1: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try.

  Amy Tan

  Trying, Stills, Absolutely Nothing

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• Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

  Frances Hardinge

  Girl, Dawn, Smirk

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• In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Struggle, Dawn

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• It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

  Nick Hornby

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wrinkle In Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Tears, Weak

  Elizabeth Smart (1994). “On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart”, London : HarperCollins

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• Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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