Quotes about Hopelessness
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
- Luke 15:16
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
- Revelation 9:6
That freedom is lost in Hell.
- Peter Kreeft
The sadness will last forever.
- Vincent Van Gogh
People do not die from suicide. They die from sadness.
- Anonymous
Rejection has long ties pulling the pain of yesterday into the situations of today. What felt hopeless yesterday will feed a hopelessness into today unless we cut those ties.
- Lysa TerKeurst
felt stuck with a suffocating sense of wanting to feel better but not knowing how. My brain has such a hard time overriding my heart sometimes. One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.
- Lysa TerKeurst
One rejection after another did quite a number on my heart. And each new rejection didn't just add hurt; it multiplied the pain that was already there. That accumulation created a dark feeling of hopeless defeat.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
- John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
- John Milton
is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.
- Charles Dickens
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
- Cormac McCarthy