Quotes about Hopelessness
Again, I saw futility under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 4:7
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
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
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Jeremiah 17:6
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 1:16
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
- Lamentations 3:2
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
- Lamentations 3:6
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Lamentations 4:17
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
- Lamentations 5:15
Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
- Lamentations 5:17
“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
- Amos 5:2
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- Amos 8:13