Hopeless Quotes - Page 3

• If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

  Barack Obama

  Motivational, Determination, Helping Others

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• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sad, Depression, Hurt

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• I am a hopeless romantic.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Hopeless Romantic

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

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• Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

  Billy Graham

  Disappointment, Cutting, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 14, 2012

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• There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Circumstances, Situation, Secret Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “THE MAGIC”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.275, Macmillan

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• I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

  Hugo Weaving

  Thinking, Self, Today

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• Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Romantic, Song, Ballads

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1998.

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• In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

  Charles Babbage

  Race, Long, Mathematics

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.8

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• Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Mazes, Stewardship, Financial

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• It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

  Anne Lamott

  Moving, Fall, Helping Others

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.36, Penguin

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• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

  Mike Horn

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Unattainable

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• A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

  Mark Twain

  Faith, Confidence, Religious

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• If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, People, Age

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• Never lose hope
  when the beloved
  sends you away.
  If you're abandoned
  if you're left hopeless
  tomorrow for sure
  you'll be called again.
  If the door is shut
  right in your face
  keep waiting with patience
  don't leave right away.
  Seeing your patience
  your love will soon
  summon you with grace
  raise you like a champion.

  Rumi

  Doors, Waiting, Grace

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• Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

  Anne Carson

  Philosophy, Giving, Give Me

  "Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message". Interview with Scott Simon, listen.sdpb.org. October 22, 2016.

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• When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Women, Believe

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• Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

  Andre Gide

  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines into the act of life for only the briefest moment -
  perhaps only a matter of seconds. Once it is gone and failed to grasp its offered revelation, there is no second chance. One may have to live the rest of one's life in hopeless depth of loneliness and remorse. In that twilight world, one can no longer look forward to anything. All that such a person holds in his hands is the withered corpse of what should have been.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Twilight, Thinking

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?

  Yvette Cooper

  Strong, Couple, Party

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• There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

  Odell Shepard

  People, Strive, Static

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• Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Pride, Expression

  Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)

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• I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

  Isaac Asimov

  Army, Fighting, Night

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• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell

  Food, Color, Vegetables

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