Abandoned Hope Quotes

#1. Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

Yann Martel

#2. Death is the destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

Martin Van Buren

#4. For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope ... that God has not abandoned this world.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.

Herman Melville

#6. the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything.

Richard Engel

#7. Tonight Must Last Us Forever

Paul Stanley

#8. I find hope is best abandoned early,' muttered Temple.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.

Rex Smith

#10. You can be an unhappy person, but you must never be a hopeless person! You can be an unsuccessful person or a defeated or an abandoned unlucky person, but you must never be a hopeless person! Being hopeless is the worst of the worst, it is the ultimate worst!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Many people think of Jesus as our Savior, as the one who will get us into heaven. So the question often is "Have I accepted Jesus as my Savior?" But we never ask the question "Have I accepted Jesus as my teacher?

Dallas Willard

#12. Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

Marcel Proust

#13. For many of the dying, intensive care, with its isolation among strangers, extinguishes their hope of not being abandoned in the last hours. If fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#14. I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

Maurice Baring

#15. People thinking that God abandoned them are deaf because they have no hope. How could God create life without hope?

Robin Sacredfire

#16. Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

Margaret Drabble

#17. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

#18. The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only.

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#19. If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

Graham Greene

#20. How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

Logan Pearsall Smith

#21. I am the great comforter. I bring you solace, understanding, and hope. In times of despair, hope is what you have abandoned.

Julia Cameron

#22. The waiter at the King David brought her change, and, in his eyes, his condolences for the meeting that had not taken place. For five hours he had watched her sit in a garden chair, straight-backed and full of anticipation, until hope had abandoned her and she slumped, weary.

Anat Talshir

#23. He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Hunter S. Thompson

#24. To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on.

Stewart O'Nan

#25. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

#26. When you're dead you're dead.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#27. Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

Alexander The Great

#28. And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.
It is the failing of his lifetime.

Kim Wright

#29. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#30. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

May Sarton

#31. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .

John Gwynne

#32. A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Charles Dickens