Quotes about Hopelessness

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscious, retain their desires and memories and reasoning, long for relief, cannot be comforted, cannot leave their torment, and are bereft of hope. The Savior could not have painted a bleaker picture.

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love

He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,