Hopeless Quotes - Page 25

• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• Be someone's light when they are hopeless.

  Dave Grohl

  Light

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• Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

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• But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Real, Struggle

  "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.

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• A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hope, Taken, Tired

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• That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
  best.

  Aldo Leopold

  Should, Situation

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• Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

  Carl Rogers

  Life, Useless, Modern

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

  Dale Archer

  Heart, Sleep, Racing

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• I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

  Bill Ayers

  Mother, Suffering, Flaws

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• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  Laura Carmichael

  Girl, Play, Agents

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• Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

  Rob Brydon

  Math, Thinking, Two

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

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• I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

  Alastair Campbell

  Hurt, Skills, Ideas

  "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

  Erich Fromm

  Hopeful, Way, Consciousness

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.23, Lantern Books

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• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

  Yvon Chouinard

  Differences, Way, Pessimist

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• My life closed twice before its close;
  It yet remains to see
  If Immortality unveil
  A third event to me,
  So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
  As these that twice befell.
  Parting is all we know of heaven,
  And all we need of hell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Encouragement, Heaven

  "My life closed twice before its close" l. 7 (unknown date)

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

  Brigit of Kildare

  Jesus, Sadness, Passion

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• ...it is only death which is hopeless.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Suicide, Suicidal

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except
  from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Persistence, Effort, Trying

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

  Jacques Maritain

  History, World, Lost

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• Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

  Saddam Hussein

  Causes, Shame, Hiding

  "Transcript of Saddam Hussein's speech to Iraqis". www.cnn.com. September 3, 1996.

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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• They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

  Thomas Beecham

  Depressing, Doleful, Drooling

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• Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

  Thomas Nagel

  Science, Interesting, Mind

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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