Quotes about Hopelessness
Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
— CS Lewis
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.
— Randy Alcorn
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.
— Jeremiah 15:18
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
— Psalm 18:41
He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
— Job 15:22
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.
— Deuteronomy 28:65
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
— Mother Teresa
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.
— Isaiah 8:22
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
— Lamentations 3:6
That freedom is lost in Hell.
— Peter Kreeft
who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
— Job 3:21
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
— Job 17:13