Hopelessness Quotes - Page 6

• To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Summer, Heart, Sun

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.84, Bottletree Books LLC

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• And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reflection, Hopeless, Felt

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• I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food. I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, many times it's connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.

  Adrian Grenier

  Inspiration, Sadness, Thinking

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• The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.

  Nate Powell

  Believe, Technology, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

  Mason Cooley

  Hope, Despair, Facts

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• I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

  Jon Stewart

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far greater level of hopelessness as they see so many of their loved ones cycling in and out of prison. Children who have incarcerated parents are far more likely themselves to be incarcerated.

  Michelle Alexander

  Children, Home, Cycling

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Sadness, Eye, Elephants

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Looks, Viewpoints, Literature

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• Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

  Tavis Smiley

  Believe, Struggle, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

  Barack Obama

  Enough, Violent, Intolerance

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

  William Hazlitt

  Struggle, Passion, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.744, Delphi Classics

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• I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

  Chath Piersath

  Helping Others, Focus, Despair

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Two, Medical Problems

  Source: sojo.net

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• A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Race

  "Dave Matthews: Conscience and Craft" by Alan Light, msn Entertainment News,

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• Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Religious, Political, Religion

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• Hopelessness kills. Numerous studies in humans show that we can die as a result of dire beliefs and a sense of overwhelming futility.

  Larry Dossey

  Belief, Study, Results

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• One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as ever, perhaps more so, and is also taking new and significant forms. There has never been anything like the international solidarity movements that began to take shape in the 1980s, right in the mainstream, or the global justice movements that have become a very powerful force in later years. It's true that the society is highly atomized, which does induce a sense of hopelessness often - quite mistakenly I think.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Attitude, Suffering, Violence

  Source: progressive.org

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• Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

  Vijay Iyer

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like climate change, there's a sense of hopelessness and despair. Maybe it's really a small gesture but if you can have a garden it may make you feel like you're helping in some way, or that you're making a connection. You can't change the world but you can change your backyard.

  Novella Carpenter

  Garden, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There is the extreme of hopelessness and the inevitability of doom, a deep despair that comes from the sense that our industrial, consuming society is jeopardizing the planet.

  Sam Keen

  Despair, Planets, Doom

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

  David Graeber

  Political, Neoliberalism, Alternatives

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Depressing, Mean, Cities

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Dream, Suffering, Bread

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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