Quotes about Hopeless
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— GK Chesterton
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
— Graham Greene
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
— Thomas Merton
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
— Albert Camus
People said love was the antidote to hate, that it could mend what was most broken, and give hope in the most hopeless of times.
— Alice Hoffman
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her.
— Anonymous
The valley… was full of bones… and lo, they were very dry.
— Anonymous
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
— Samuel Johnson
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
— William James
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
— Samuel Johnson
The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless — and particularly so as regards the future — has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.
— Elias Canetti
And my heart aches, in hopeless pain Exhausted with repinings vain, That I shall greet them ne'er again!
— Emily Bronte