Top 222 Hopelessness Quotes & Sayings

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time. Hopelessness is possible only because we do hope that some good, loving someone could come. If that's what Heidegger meant, then I agree with him.

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

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

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.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

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

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

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.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.

Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

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

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

The rosary is a weapon against depression and hopelessness.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

Answer hopelessness with a defiant smile and a raised middle finger.

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.