Top 100 No Hope Sayings
#2. What are you saying?" He fought to keep his voice under control. "You love me but there's no hope for us?
Jojo Moyes
#3. I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced ... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong ... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#4. Although, dear Lord, I have no feeling of confidence in Thee, I know all the same that Thou art my God, that I am wholly Thine, and that I have no hope but in Thy goodness; therefore I abandon myself entirely into Thy hands.
Francis De Sales
#5. I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.
Howard Schultz
#6. When I doubted, there was hope; but now there is no hope and even so I doubt everything.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. We are not perfect in ourselves, but in Him we are. In the red circle of this world, there is no hope. However, because you're living in the purple wedge, there is always His hope, power, and joy.
Van Harden
#8. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.
Noam Chomsky
#9. Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
Morris Kline
#11. Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there's no hope.
Noelle Adams
#12. There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying.
Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.
Amy Tan
#13. There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
#14. But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.
Lu Xun
#15. I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
John Gresham Machen
#17. People thinking that God abandoned them are deaf because they have no hope. How could God create life without hope?
Robin Sacredfire
#18. Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
Moliere
#19. War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Livy
#20. I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais
#21. I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine ...
Elizabeth Gaskell
#22. There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.
Richard Henry Stoddard
#23. The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is .
Rudzani Ralph
#24. There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
Baruch Spinoza
#25. As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope of producing a useful economic and social history.
Thomas Piketty
#26. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
#27. These have no hope that death will overcome.
And so degraded is the life they lead
all look with envy on all other fates.
Dante Alighieri
#28. When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.
Heber J. Grant
#29. Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
Mark Fuhrman
#31. Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.
Megan Chance
#32. Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
Frontinus
#33. This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
Victor Davis Hanson
#34. When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.
Susan Stryker
#35. Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power and the peace to make that happen?
Tracie Miles
#36. There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.
Barry Nolan
#37. No hope without faith, no faith without hope, no love without trust, no trust without love. Remove one and the entire human house cards collapses.
Rick Yancey
#38. When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
Charles Bukowski
#39. The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
Dario Argento
#40. death means everything that is unrepeatable. Death is, in the midst of life, that which will not return; that which belongs irreversibly to time past, which we have no hope of ever recovering.
Luc Ferry
#41. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce
#42. Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail
Dave Matthews Band
#43. For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
#44. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#45. Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
Gertrude Stein
#46. If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life.
Debasish Mridha
#47. For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
Albert Einstein
#48. What was it like to see Lawrie smile? I can try: it was as if a healer had placed their hands upon my chest. My kneecaps porridge, jaw tingling, no hope to swallow.
Jessie Burton
#49. We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.
Max Lucado
#50. There's no escape for us. We are like mice trapped in a dungeon of wildcats.We are Koreans; we are cursed race and there is no hope for us as long as the Japanese are around.
Sook Nyul Choi
#51. All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
Aldous Huxley
#53. While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.
Jon Wynne-Tyson
#55. Nowhere is where there is no love, where there is no hope, where it is cold, where it is meaningless, where it is dark and frightening, painful and hurting! When love shines, nowhere disappears; where love is alive, nowhere is dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
Albert Camus
#57. I used to read a lot. But my focus has gotten worse. My favorites are Russian authors and dark stories where there's no hope.
Robert Pattinson
#58. I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.
Barbara Pym
#61. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.
James Dashner
#62. When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.
Nelson Mandela
#63. Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.
Don Feder
#64. God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.
Charles Spurgeon
#65. Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#66. Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993
Nelson Mandela
#67. New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.
New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;
Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness ... .
There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in
Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
Christopher Morley
#68. I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Thomas Peterffy
#69. If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.
Noam Chomsky
#70. We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.
Christopher Dawson
#71. Those final moments, while horrific in one sense, were intimate in another. Perhaps when you finally realized were beaten - that there really was no hope - something was triggered in the mind, allowing you to expunge, accept.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#72. There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
Niels Bohr
#73. As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
Bodhidharma
#75. THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no hope of escape or affection, some learn to bite.
Ellen Hopkins
#76. Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.
Amy Lane
#77. He was beginning to feel that depression caused by the repetition of the same kind of life, when no interest inspires and no hope sustains it.
Anonymous
#78. With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
Osho
#79. He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.
Ian McEwan
#80. Are you kidding me? How can you even ask me that? I'm stuck in a world I have no hope of surviving, I'm forced to depend on a guy who thinks I can't be trusted, I'm being pushed into marrying a man who believes I can't talk, and I've lost everyone I've ever cared about! Why wouldn't I feel uneasy?
Cheryl Koevoet
#81. My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Oprah Winfrey
#82. Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977)
Nalini Singh
#83. The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like
I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.
Jose Emilio Pacheco
#84. What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
Chris Priestley
#85. I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.
Cameron Dokey
#86. come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish - no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe. Deity
Rabindranath Tagore
#87. Without grace there is no hope, but with it there is no shortage.
Barnabas
#88. She was floating in the midst of a black sea, in the darkest of nights, with no hope or care to see light again. She was a mere wave away from drowning in blackness.
Anam Iqbal
#89. With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.
Marcel Proust
#91. There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.
John Logie Baird
#92. Yes, there is no hope. But remember, some fuses are duds, some tumors are benign, some heart patients recover on their own. You have time to change your life.
Rick DeMarinis
#93. I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
P.D. James
#94. There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.
John McAfee
#95. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#96. I'm about to cross a line with you ... a line there will be no hope of me ever returning from. And I'm terrified because the thought of you excites me.
J.L. Vallance
#98. You will be tempted to lose hope, but always remember that God is with you and if there seems to be no hope, He is your hope.
Therese May
#99. Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.
Theodore J. Kaczynski
#100. There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
Napoleon Hill
