Hopeless Quotes - Page 2

• Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

  William Shakespeare

  Friendless, Alas

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.604

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• All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate

  Nellie Bly

  Fate, Mind, Doe

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Grief, People, Poor

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• It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

  Edward Sapir

  Heart, Crowds, Language

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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• When you stop hoping you start settling.

  Valorie Burton

  Inspirational, Hope, Stopping

  FaceBook post by Valorie Burton from Feb 25, 2015

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girlfriend, Dating, Hopeless Romantic

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• My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

  Christopher Eccleston

  Drinking, Parent, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sidney Poitier

  Hopelessness, Domination

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• I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Romantic, Dirty, Naughty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

  Keanu Reeves

  Sexy, Handsome, Courses

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• By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Drug, Generations

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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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• When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

  David Amram

  Believe, Book, Different

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• I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

  Kim Kardashian

  Romantic, Thinking, Hopeless Romantic

  "Sneak Preview of Glamour's Interview with Cover Stars Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.glamour.com. November 28, 2011.

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• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

  Dario Argento

  Heart, Dark, Opera

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• Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

  Richard Yates

  Real, People, Emptiness

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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, Investment

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• This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

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• I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.

  T.I.

  Not Good Enough, Police, Looks

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.

  Mike Seabrook

  Beer, Golf, Glasses

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• In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sarcastic, United States, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Choices, Sweetheart

  Andy Andrews (2011). “The Heart Mender: A Story of Second Chances”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

  Bill Johnson

  Lying, Influence, No Hope

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