Hopeless Quotes - Page 27

• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Ignorance, Justice, Religion

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• For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Iron, Sight, Self

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.127

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• All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless

  Rachel Cohn

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• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Night, Pay

  'Faded Leaves' (1855) no. 5 (first published, 1852, as 'Longing')

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• Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

  William Faulkner

  Sorrow, Sound, Might

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Loving You, Goes On

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

  Edith Sitwell

  Lonely, Kings, Heart

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• If you muster that courage to stand under fire and not go down, you will amass an inner strength that no one can touch. You won’t be another faceless, nameless, forgotten human in a long historical line of the defeated. You will be a steeled warrior, and a force to be forever reckoned with. And beneath the pain that lingers, you will have the comfort of knowing that you are strongest of all. That when others caved and broke, you kept fighting even against hopeless odds.” - Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Fighting, Warrior

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• It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

  Boris Pasternak

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

  Ilchi Lee

  Blessing, Hopeful, Mind

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jul 06, 2015

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• She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

  Michael Cunningham

  Strong, Mind, Sorrow

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• There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

  Pete Wentz

  Lying, Dark, Thinking

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Taken, Men

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.290, Faber & Faber

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• It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

  Frances Hardinge

  Hate, Flawless, Sunbeams

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Twilight Robbery”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe

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• And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.

  Renata Adler

  Brother, Book, Years

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• The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fear, Forever, Inferiority

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• Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

  David Levithan

  Hopeless Romantic, Way, Possibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.186, Egmont UK

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• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

  Intellectual, Vices, Form

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.177, Booklassic

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• Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

  Michael Flynn

  Lying, Views, Want

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• Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Silence, Our Dreams

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• I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

  Robin McKinley

  Kids, Thinking, Next

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• I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

  Whitney M. Young

  Thinking, Voice, Moments

  "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

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• On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humble, Humility

  Thomas Merton (1962). “Seeds of contemplation”

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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